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Still reeling from a 2010
Supreme Court ruling that opened
the door to an explosion of
political ads from corporate
interests, and fearful the court
could overturn President Barack
Obama’s healthcare overhaul,
liberal groups have launched an
aggressive – and at times personal
– attack on the court’s most
conservative justices.
The sharp questioning of the
impartiality and ethics of Justices
Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia
and to a lesser extent Samuel
Alito represents the most
concerted attack on a bloc of
justices since the early 1970s,
when conservatives waged a long
campaign against the liberal
justices of the Warren Court, most
notably Justices William O.
Douglas and Abe Fortas.
Thomas and Scalia have been
accused of undermining public
confidence in the court by
engaging in partisan politics and
making decisions that could
benefit the political and financial
interests of their family and
associates. And both justices have
faced calls for the Justice
Department to investigate alleged
conflicts of interest and possibly
to invalidate their votes in the
2010 decision on political
spending, Citizens United vs.
Federal Election Commission.
One low-profile liberal watchdog
group last week even asked the
Missouri Supreme Court to disbar
Thomas. Alito has been criticized
for speaking at fundraising events
for conservative groups opposed
to Obama’s agenda. Only Chief
Justice John Roberts, the fourth
staunch conservative on the court,
has been relatively immune from
the same kind of criticism.
For liberals, the disposition –
and, to some extent, the public
perception – of the court is of
looming concern as key aspects of
Obama’s ambitious domestic
agenda appear on a collision
course with the Supreme Court’s
conservative bloc, which has been
able to lure swing Justice
Anthony Kennedy on key cases,
including Citizens United.
Obama’s surprisingly blunt
criticism of the majority’s
decision in that case during his
2010 state of the union address
seemed to set the tone for the
scrutiny that followed.
“What we’re seeing is that there is
major concern among liberals that
the four dyed-in-the-wool
conservatives on the court – with
Justice Kennedy when they’re
able to bring him on board – are
now in a period of real activism,”
said Noah Feldman, a Harvard
law professor who wrote a book
about the sometimes heated
battles surrounding the
jurisprudence of the liberal
justices Franklin D. Roosevelt
appointed to the Supreme Court.
“In this (modern) context, it’s not
so surprising that attacks on the
justices would veer from the
purely ideological into attempts to
delegitimize the justices
personally, to some extent,” said
Feldman, who clerked for retired
liberal Justice David Souter but
nonetheless drew fire from the left
for a February New York Times
op-ed arguing that the political
engagement of Thomas and Scalia
pales in comparison to their
predecessors, and actually could
help better inform their decisions.
The condemnation of the two
justices seems “suspiciously
partisan,” Feldman wrote, and
other legal scholars and court
watchers from across the political
spectrum have also dismissed the
campaign as a stretch, at best, and
dangerous, at worst.
But Arn Pearson, a campaign
finance and ethics lawyer who is a
vice president at the left-leaning
watchdog group Common Cause,
which has helped lead the liberal
scrutiny of the court, said the
charges have both legal merit and
popular traction.
“In my memory, I haven’t seen
this level of brazen political
activity” by Supreme Court
justices, Pearson said last week,
adding “what you’re hearing is an
outpouring of people being upset
about the court being politicized
in a way that it hasn’t been in
decades.”
Common Cause frames the
criticism as part of a non-partisan
push to make the Supreme Court
more ethical and transparent. But
other liberal critics acknowledge
they’re motivated by the court’s
rightward tack under Roberts, and
by the way conservatives have
capitalized on Citizens United.
“This issue does not come up in a
vacuum,” Rep. Chris Murphy (D-
Conn.) said last week after a press
conference unveiling a bill to
extend a judicial code of conduct
to the Supreme Court and require
justices to disclose why they did –
or did not – recuse themselves
from cases.
In explaining the impetus for the
bill, Murphy, who is running for
Senate, cited the conservative
groups that cropped up after
Citizens United and aired tens of
millions of ads targeting
Democrats ( including him) in
2010. But Murphy also told
POLITICO “my interest is
certainly piqued by the fact that
they may be taking on one of the
most important piece of social
legislation in this generation – the
healthcare law.”
Nan Aaron, president of the
liberal group Alliance for Justice,
which endorsed Murphy’s bill,
said the effort has a wider target
than just the Citizens United
decision or the healthcare law
Democrats passed last year, which
is the subject of a handful of
lawsuits working their way
through the federal courts and is
expected ultimately to be resolved
by the Supreme Court.
“There’s been a concerted effort
by the Roberts Court to take many
more business cases and to make
decisions in favor of large
corporations at the expense of
everyday Americans,” said Aaron.
Her group, which campaigned to
defeat the nominations of Roberts
and Alito, last month released a
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letter signed by more than 100
law professors urging
congressional hearings on the
Supreme Court’s ethics rules,
which it indicated was prompted
by “questionable activities” by
Thomas, Scalia and Alito “that
give the appearance of
partisanship.”
Among the activities with which
liberal court critics have taken
issue:
-Scalia and Thomas in January of
2007 and 2008, respectively,
attended events connected to the
conservative donor conferences
organized by the billionaire
industrialist Koch brothers, David
and Charles, who have donated or
raised millions for groups that
aired hard-hitting ads attacking
Democrats, including at least one
that took advantage of the
spending flexibility afforded them
by Citizens United.
-Thomas’s wife Virginia formed a
tea party non-profit group in late
2009 that campaigned against the
Democratic healthcare overhaul
and formed a lobbying shop late
last year that sought meetings
with a host of Republican
freshman lawmakers who want to
repeal the overhaul.
- Thomas failed to report his
wife’s income over the past
decade, prompting the judge to
amend 13 years’ worth of
disclosure reports after Common
Cause filed a complaint about the
missing information.
-Scalia gave a January speech to a
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group of predominately
Republican lawmakers organized
by the House Tea Party Caucus.
-Alito attended a fundraising
dinner for the conservative
American Spectator magazine.
Citing Virginia Thomas’s tea
party group’s fundraising, as well
as the trips her husband and Scalia
took to the Koch meetings,
Common Cause in January asked
the Justice Department to
investigate whether the justices
should have recused themselves
from the Citizens United decision
and to consider moving to vacate
the decision.
And Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-
N.Y.) is laying the groundwork
for a similar challenge should the
court overturn the healthcare
overhaul, having collected 90
House Democrats’ signatures on a
letter urging Thomas to recuse
himself from any healthcare case
because of his wife’s work.
“I don’t see this as part of some
broader tactical play,” said
Weiner, who also intends to co-
sponsor Murphy’s bill. “But I can
say this: if Justice Thomas does
not recuse himself and the court
rules (to strike down) the law, I
will be making the point that this
is not a credible decision.”
Yet, even liberal legal experts
have brushed off the complaints
as hollow.
In an appearance with Weiner on
CNN last month, the network’s
liberal legal commentator Jeffrey
Toobin flatly rejected the
Democratic congressman’s call
for Thomas to recuse himself
from the healthcare case.
“I don’t think there is even a
specter of a conflict of interest,”
said Toobin.
And Michael Waldman,
executive director of the left-
leaning Brennan Center for
Justice at New York University’s
School of Law, called the
allegations that Thomas and
Scalia were biased by their
affiliation with the Koch retreat
“meritless. We see no basis for
the accusations that the Justices’
decisions are based on anything
but the merits.” He warned that
“people should think very hard
before asking prosecutors to
investigate judges just because
they dislike the decisions they
make.”
In dismissing as “far-fetched”
Common Cause’s request that the
Justice Department investigate
whether the justices’ Koch
conference appearances warranted
recusal, the Washington Post
editorial board noted that liberal
justices also have affiliated with
groups that have had interests
before the court.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for
instance, appeared at a 2004
lecture series cosponsored by the
NOW Legal Defense and
Education Fund, two weeks after
taking the liberal group’s side in a
medical screening case before the
court.
And, though the justice’s late
husband, Martin Ginsburg, was
for years a partner in a high-
powered corporate law firm,
Harvard’s Feldman asserted in his
Times’ op-ed “surely no one
believes that his career made his
wife … more positively inclined
toward corporate interests.”
Likewise, Feldman was amused
by a December Times editorial
urging Scalia to reject the Tea
Party Caucus invitation lest he
“give the impression that he was
joining the throng — confirming
his new moniker as the ‘Justice
from the Tea Party’.”
In an interview with POLITICO,
Feldman said “Justice Scalia had
his views a long time before there
was a tea party. Maybe the tea
party is following Justice Scalia,
but he’s definitely not following
the tea party.”
Feldman compared the current
targeting of justices to the liberal
attacks on the Supreme Court in
the 1920s and 1930s, when
justices (led by conservatives who
liberals branded ‘the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse”)
struck down progressive
legislation as violating property
rights, as well as to the
conservative attacks on the liberal
Warren Court in the 1960s and
early 1970s.
Those attacks – which included
moves by congressional
Republicans to impeach Fortas
and Douglas over their acceptance
of payments from foundations
funded by controversial liberals –
eventually forced Fortas’s
resignation from the court.
“The motivation was ideological
but the form of the attacks could
be extremely personal,” Feldman
said.
Thomas himself pushed back on
the attacks in a speech late last
month to a symposium sponsored
by the conservative Federalist
Society, in which he said his
critics appear “bent on
undermining” the court and
defended himself and his wife as
“focused on defending liberty.”
Some on the right, meanwhile,
have speculated that the liberal
push to get Thomas to recuse
from any healthcare case is really
an effort to neutralize Republican
pressure to sideline liberal Justice
Elena Kagan from the case on
account of her work as Obama’s
solicitor general before joining the
court.
“The purpose of this isn’t really to
pressure Thomas into a recusal, at
which Thomas is almost certain to
issue his trademark booming
laugh, but to pre-empt the recusal
argument for Elena Kagan,” the
conservative pundit Ed Morrissey
asserted recently.
And congressional Republicans
last week went on offense against
liberal court critics, alleging in a
letter to the Justice Department
that Common Cause’s efforts had
“incite(d) violence and
encourage(d) racial slurs against
several Justices of the Supreme
Court and their families” – and
also asking for an investigation of
whether the advocacy group’s
Supreme Court campaign violated
its tax-exempt status.
Common Cause and the other
liberal groups that have played a
role in pressuring the conservative
justices – the Alliance for Justice,
Center for American Progress and
People for the American Way–
had combined budgets of $65.4
million in 2009, the most recent
3
year for which their tax filings
were readily available.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), a
former state judge whose office
drafted the Justice Department
letter, called Common Cause’s
campaign “a fundraising effort”
and suggested the goal is to
intimidate the conservative
justices away from controversial
decisions.
“Judges are human and when
there are threats made on you or
your family, as has been done to
Justice Thomas, it affects you,” he
told POLITICO after a Thursday
press conference unveiling the
letter.
In fact, the threats referenced in
the letter were provoked by a
conservative videographer at a
protest in which Common Cause
participated outside January’s
Koch donor conference in
California.
“After we impeach Clarence
Thomas, what should we do with
him?” the videographer asks a
handful of protestors featured in
his video. Among the responses
offered – in at least one case after
encouragement from the
videographer, who tells the
reluctant interviewee “you can say
anything, we’re all friends” –
were “Hang him” and “string him
up.”
Common Cause issued a
statement condemning the
“hateful, narrow-minded
sentiments.” Spokeswoman Mary
Boyle asserted the video used
misleading techniques including
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Obama is being driven towards Libya - The Guardian
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Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:51:09 AM
Gaddafi … 'momentum is
building behind expanded,
American-led involvement in the
crisis'. Photograph: KeystoneUSA
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Political pressure is growing on
Barack Obama to administer a
coup de grace to Colonel Gaddafi,
if need be through direct US
military intervention. In part it's
because policymakers and
commentators see a chance of a
fresh, democratic start in Libya,
and in part because they fear a
vacuum that anti-western
Islamists and al-Qaida may fill.
But Washington's war drums are
also beating faster out of concern
that Gaddafi, a long-reviled
bogeyman first targeted by
Ronald Reagan, may yet survive
the revolt.
John McCain, the 2008
Republican presidential candidate,
is leading the charge–
coincidentally providing a
salutary insight into how America
might act now had he and Sarah
Palin not been defeated by
Obama. McCain is urging the
White House to declare its
support for a Libyan provisional
government, even though none
presently exists, and provide
"technical assistance", training
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and intelligence to rebel forces.
Undeterred by Pentagon chief
Robert Gates's warning that a no-
fly zone (NFZ), as proposed by
David Cameron, would be
tantamount to declaring war,
McCain said imposing a NFZ
would not be difficult and would
show "the president is serious
when he says we need for Gaddafi
to go". The Republican senate
leader, Mitch McConnell, is
arguing (again like Cameron) that
supplying weapons to the rebels "
could be an option". Stephen
Hadley, former president George
Bush's national security adviser,
suggested immediate aerial arms
drops.
Democrat John Kerry has also
jumped in, even though, given his
long experience on the senate
foreign affairs committee, he
should know better by now.
Apparently oblivious to Britain's
SAS disastrous weekend
adventure in eastern Libya, Kerry
said bombing Libya's military air
bases, runways and airports could
be effective in containing
Gaddafi's air power. He claimed a
NFZ would not amount to
military intervention. But he
added it should only be
undertaken with international
agreement.
Obama's position, so far, is that
significant support from allies,
sexually assaulting at least 17
women from Virginia to Rhode
Island asked, "Why haven't you
picked me up sooner?" when he
principally Nato but also Arab
states, would be required before
any such steps were taken –
conjuring the prospect of an Iraq
era, neo-Rumsfeldian "coalition of
the willing". The White House has
been vague about whether a new
UN resolution is needed. Nato's
secretary-general, Anders Fogh
Rasmussen, last week rejected
intervention in Libya without
specific UN authorisation but has
nevertheless been ordered to draw
up "full-scope" contingency plans
that presumably include military
action. Nato defence ministers
will discuss Libyan options on
Thursday. EU leaders are to meet
the next day.
Rightwing commentators such as
John Yoo of the American
Enterprise Institute, meanwhile
pour scorn on Obama who, Yoo
says, claims to uphold universal
values but uses international law
to keep his "passivity and
confusion" concealed. "By putting
aside the UN's antiquated rules
[restricting armed intervention],
the US can save lives, improve
global welfare and serve its own
national interests," Yoo wrote in
the Wall Street Journal.
The sense that momentum is
building behind expanded,
American-led involvement in the
crisis is enhanced by possibly
over-dramatic UN and
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governmental statements about
the humanitarian situation and by
the US offshore military build-up.
The language used in a statement
issued on Sunday by Ban Ki-
moon, the UN secretary-general,
gave the impression the stakes are
rising. Ban said he was "deeply
concerned about the fighting ...
which is claiming large numbers
of lives and threatens even more
carnage in the days ahead".
US assets deployed close to
Libya now include the 26th
Marine Expeditionary Unit
comprising two amphibious
assault ships, Harrier jump-jets,
attack helicopters, landing craft
and combat troops. The US can
also call on numerous aircraft
based in Italy and elsewhere in the
Mediterranean plus special forces,
technical and intelligence
gathering units. Operations to
disrupt the regime's
communications through "cyber
attack" signal-jamming are being
prepared. Meanwhile, the USS
Enterprise aircraft carrier and its
strike group is reportedly moving
up the Red Sea, heading for the
Suez canal.
It's a sure bet Obama does not
want to get involved militarily in
Libya if he can help it. But he has
demanded that Gaddafi step
down. And the country is the
exception to his hands-off, post-
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Egypt policy rule of encouraging
peaceful reform by friendly Arab
governments. If regime forces
continue to regain lost territory, if
casualties and evidence of mass
killings of civilians mount, if the
humanitarian crisis deepens, and
if political pressure intensifies in
Washington, Obama may feel
obliged to act.
Critically, if the US calculates
that Gaddafi – wounded, vengeful
and blaming the west for his woes
– could ultimately survive in
Tripoli to fight another day, this
moment of maximum weakness
may be seen in Washington as a
final, but finite, opportunity to get
rid of him once and for all.
Gaddafi's survival would break
Arab hearts. It could also break
Obama's whole fragile Middle
East strategy.
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Egyptian Protesters Raid State Security, Post Government
Secrets to Facebook
Neal Ungerleider (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:53:12 AM
Egyptian rebels stormed the
headquarters of the feared State
Security Intelligence Directorate
this weekend. They stole files
indicated that secret policemen
spied on Facebook accounts,
harassed Coptic Christians and
had advance knowledge of
terrorist attacks. Then they posted
the secret files--to a WikiLeaks-
like Facebook group.
Egyptian protesters who
infiltrated the offices of Egypt's
State Security apparatus on
Saturday found exactly what they
were looking for: surveillance
files on millions of Egyptian
citizens and caches of information
on hundreds of sensitive subjects.
They also found secret torture
chambers, evidence of vote
rigging, possible complicity in
terrorism, state surveillance of the
Christian minority and extensive
lists of passwords to Skype and
Facebook accounts used by
ordinary Egyptians.
According to the Meta-Activism
Project--and the Twitter/Facebook
accounts of Egyptians involved in
the State Security raid--the use of
WikiLeaks was the primary
inspiration for the Facebook page
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and Yfrog Postings. According to
Al Jazeera, the action involved
hundreds of protesters and a
search for documents detailing the
hacking, targeting of human rights
groups, plus torture devices and
secret detention rooms. The
protestors left with plenty of those
documents, although Egypt's
armed forces called them to return
them, as they were part of "a
larger investigation into
corruption and rights violations."
Then, following the discovery,
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Jefferson County squirmed over
the Egyptian protesters did a very
21st century thing with their new,
liberated information cache: They
posted it to Facebook and other
social networking sites.
A new Facebook group called
Amn Dawla Leaks(State Security
Leaks), which is posting scans of
secret Egyptian security files,
already has more than 12,000
fans. Use of it is accompanied by
Egyptian protesters who have
taken it upon themselves to
upload scans of controversial state
its image as the bad boy of
municipal finance. Now the
security files to Twitpic, Yfrog
and similar services.
Users posted to Amn Dawla
Leaks falsified voter registration
cards found in state security files
for use by regime loyalists.
Yfrog user @Pakinamer posted
this photograph of a document
detailing spying on Egypt's Coptic
Christian minority.
Yfrog user @Pakinamer posted
this photograph of protesters
examining the state security
detention cells where Amnesty
county says it finally has a plan to
put its fiscal house in order.
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International and Human Rights
Watch alleged that widespread
sexual and physical abuse of
prisoners took place.
Users posted to Amn Dawla
Leaks a document indicating the
Egyptian military had advance
knowledge of a devastating
terrorist attack at the scuba diving
mecca of Sharm el-Sheikh in
2005. The terrorists at Sharm el-
Sheikh killed 88 people and
severely injured more than 200.
Users are constantly posting new
scans to the Facebook page and to
the various Twitter-based image
sharing services by using the
#amndawla hashtag. The use of
Facebook to create a website
designed to give away
government secrets is sure to
create a headache for the
famously politics-wary company.
However, any move to remove
the Facebook group would create
massive negative publicity among
the vociferous American
supporters of the Egyptian youth
uprising.
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Apple's iPhone 5 May Get an All-Metal Makeover--Is That a

Good Thing?
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:48:27 AM

The iPad 2 is only just out in

public, but the iPhone 5 rumors
are now ramping up, with hints
the new phone may get an all-
metal makeover. Does this make
good sense?
The iPhone 1 had a 75%
aluminum rear face, if you
remember back through the mists
of time to 2007. A full 100%
unibody aluminum chassis eluded
the designers because of the
antenna design used in the phone-
-resulting in a slightly inelegant
black plastic portion for radio
transparency. Four years has just
scooted past, and now there're hot
new rumors the iPhone 5 will get
an aluminum unibody chassis--
tallying with Apple's design way. The glass back is said to same production lines as the all- making the chassis actually part Also, if Apple does bow to the
uniformity across the iMac, have increased the weight of the aluminum chassis of the iPad and of the radio system, since this public, learn these design lessons,
MacBook Pro and iPad lineups. phone, displeasing some Macs do, resulting in economies enabled very novel design and follow-up with an aluminum
According to Chinese source customers (and, arguably, of scale for Apple (and possibly choices. iPhone 5, the answer to any
Economic Daily News, which has pleasing others thanks to the sense enabling the rumored "cheap It's unlikely to let this cleverness question like "Did you get the
had some success in revealing of "quality" it gives the device), iPhone"). It makes the phone slide for the iPhone 5--the phone iPhone 4 wrong?" will be " bite
Apple's future plans in advance, and resulted in structural more resilient, and solves the would risk looking too much like my shiny metal butt!"
the redesign is guided by two weaknesses--since now you have camera-light-leak problem. every generic plastic Android To read more news like this,
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antennagate" issue, with have learned from the problems in both devices. The iPhone 4's And we're pretty certain it won't
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Suspect in East Coast rapes held on Kilauea volcano in Hawaii

$1.5M bail (AP) sends lava into air as new
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Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:56:44 AM
Lopez, said he had attempted to
waive his client's appearance at
Authorities recently put up
electronic billboards in the states vent opens - The Guardian
the court hearing, which a judge where the attacks occurred and (Top Stories - Google News) constant eruption since 1983,
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The man d e n i e d . L o p e z d e c l i n e d t o neighboring states, and they said a Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:07:02 AM could erupt or collapse without
suspected of sexually assaulting at comment afterward. Bail was set tip from Prince William County, warning, posing a threat to hikers.
least 17 women from Virginia to at $1.5 million. Va., directed them to Thomas. A fissure eruption spotted at In addition, potentially lethal
Rhode Island asked, "Why haven't Strollo said DNA from a cigarette Authorities in Prince William Kilauea volcano at the weekend is concentrations of sulphur dioxide
you picked me up sooner?" when that police saw Thomas discard County are charging him with now thought to be almost a third could be present up to half a mile
he was arrested last week, a after leaving a local court was rape, abduction, being a fugitive of a mile long. Photograph: Ho/ downwind of vent areas.
prosecutor said Monday in court. used to confirm that Thomas was and using of a firearm while AFP/Getty Images Babb told the Hawaii Tribune-
Aaron Thomas, 39, made his first the man wanted in the attacks, committing a felony. A new vent has opened at Herald that the fissure had
court appearance in New Haven which began in 1997. He said Thomas had lived previously in Kilauea, one of the world's most expanded and is now almost a
Superior Court in Connecticut, Thomas has lived in New Haven Maryland and Virginia, according active volcanoes, sending lava third of a mile long. He added that
wearing sunglasses and a baseball for about four years. to public records. shooting up to 20 metres into the scientists were moving into the
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White House promotes Muslim help against terrorism (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Popular) AP - The White House is pushing hearing on Islamic radicalism, Muslims as potential terrorists.
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:16:11 PM a message of religious tolerance which has sparked protests on
ahead of this week's congressional grounds it unfairly singles out
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Gowalla to Launch "Groupon or Living Social-type" Rewards

at SXSW
Austin Carr (Fast Company) won't be this new iteration of the partners, both larger brands and
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:39:12 AM million-users-strong service. local businesses," says Williams.
Rather, Gowalla's buzz worthy While it's too early to say how a
"I started swearing to myself four a n n o u n c e m e n t w i l l r e v o l v e Groupon-like Gowalla would
or five years ago that I would around a new rewards system, work, one could imagine the big
never launch another product at which could rival deals platforms discounts you've come to expect
SXSW," says Josh Wiliams, of Foursquare and Facebook from daily coupon services
founder and CEO of Gowalla, the Places. integrated with Gowalla's check-
Austin-based check-in service. "Everyone talks about game- ins.
"That's never come true--my mechanics and badges, but the "What we're launching is
success record on that promise question for us is how we take definitely going to be a pilot or an
has just not been good." these beautiful icons and turn experiment," Williams says.
Already gearing up to make a them into something that has "Presuming that this all goes well,
are definitely more akin to, say, a Rewards platform in the next few
splash at this year's SXSW, the tangible value," Williams says. we'll be looking to expand."
Groupon or Living Social-type weeks with help from several
company today launched Gowalla "That's where our Rewards Read More: Most Innovative
thing, rather than just a dollar off major partners--whom he declined
3 for Android, creating a "freshly platform comes in. It allows us to Companies: Groupon
your coffee." to reveal. "Basically we're
baked" port of the popular iPhone t a k e r e w a r d s f r o m l o c a l
Gowalla will unveil the new launching with a select group of
app. But the real news at SXSW businesses and larger brands that

Sleepy Kochi, India, Gets a "SmartCity"

Jenara Nerenberg (Fast "This key step reflects our about who will occupy the new
Company) confidence in the vision for space. Will the IT companies be
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:50:52 AM SmartCity Kochi and our accompanied by a flurry of fast
commitment to the people of food chains? In which case, the
A 246-acre IT park is to be built Kerala," said Abdul Latif Al resulting health consequences
in the Southern state of Kerala. Mulla, Vice Chairman of would create a whole other set of
Delhi's got its "Cyber city," the S m a r t C i t y K o c h i . problems. It remains to be seen
area in nearby Gurgaon where the SmartCity is a project of the whether or not Tecom will keep
likes of Yahoo!, Deloitte, and Dubai-based Tecom Investments, such tenants at bay.
other large multinationals reside. a company that specializes in Follow Fast Company on Twitter.
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version, a " SmartCity" with a communities around the world. continuing the expansion of the next 10 years, giving the tourism- Peter Fristedt]
focus on IT, and it is slated to "The progress that will result from SmartCity global network," said dependent city an alternative
become one of the largest IT the signing of a fresh lease Al Mulla. engine of economic growth, if all
business parks in India, spread agreement will give further SmartCity Kochi is also expected goes as planned. But the
across 246 acres. momentum to our plans of to generate 90,000 jobs over the investment also raises concerns

Collins' missed flights lead Bobcats to Temple (AP)

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ended guard Sherron Collins' C h a r l o t t e B o b c a t s .
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“selective editing (and) baiting
people,” and she called the call
for a Justice Department
investigation of her group’s tax
status “laughable.”
But Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa),
who joined Gohmert at the
Thursday press conference, called
the campaign by Common Cause
and other liberal groups “the
beginning of an intimidation tactic
that picks up and plays off of
what was referred to during the
confirmation of Justice Thomas as
a ‘high-tech lynching.’”
Simmi Aujla contributed to this
report.
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Chiefs' Player Suggests That Wealthy NFL Players Could

Funnel Money To Those That Would Be Most Affected By A
Lockout
Kevin Baumer (Business won't be an issue and there will be Of course, just because Waters is
Insider) a new CBA by Friday, but Waters' charitable doesn't mean that he'll
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:05:00 PM suggestion is intriguing. have an easy time convincing
It seems so simple, doesn't it? other wealthy NFL players to give
In Jim Trotter's enlightening intro The biggest weakness of the up significant portions of their
to Peter King's Monday Morning NFLPA, and all sports unions for bank accounts. We don't know
Quarterback column for SI, that matter, is that the guys that how that would play out, but this
Kansas City Chiefs guard Brian don't earn as much won't be able could be a good indicator of just
Waters revealed that he's looked to stomach a length lockout how unified the " all for one, and
into creating a fund in which the because they rely on regular pay one for all" union is.
league's high-earning players can checks. Waters' plan, if helped by Surely there would be obstacles not be insurmountable. If not, it's Bookmark the Sports Page >
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How We Can Give The Internet A Leg Up Over Oppressive

Government Crackdowns
Tristan Louis (Business Insider) year but to make a long story access device and this site (or any that could help potentially move can be routed around.
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:03:00 PM short, access to the internet can be other site) is what is making the the infrastructure beyond its The atmosphere is everything
controlled in 3 areas: at the source internet a global network… and it current state to a brand new that surrounds the cloud. It is the
T h e m y t h a r o u n d i n t e r n e t (where the servers allowing for is something that is largely world. space between the devices that are
creation is that it was initially creating and sharing content are outside the control of anyone but From cloud to atmosphere used for creation and consumption
thought as a communication located), at the receiving end the richest and most powerful With web 2.0, the idea of hosting of content.
network that could withstand an (where the computer or mobile people, organizations, and content on remote servers shared No one should own the
atomic bomb. While there is some device is receiving content) or in- governments. In the US, for by many and administered by few atmosphere: It surrounds us and
truth to the fact that packet between those two points (either example, it is mostly under the (Amazon, Google, etc..) has been we all contribute to its well-being
networks were initially designed using firewalls or shutting down control of telephone and cable commonly referred to as the and decay in an almost equal
with that intent, recent events the infrastructure altogether). companies, which themselves are cloud… and that analogy has been fashion.
such as the shutdown of the Repressive governments tend to working in conjunction with local, increasingly used to talk about the The atmosphere is the
internet in Egypt and Lybia seem work at all those points, often state, and federal regulators. internet as an amorphous group, infrastructure that makes the
to point to the frailty of the net managing to block portions of the A substantial part of the reason moving beyond the ground-based cloud possible.
infrastructure. network through a variety of for that control by large operators concepts of land lines and server It is a public internet (or a virtual
I would like to propose some means. For example, China has is that building out and farms to evoke something greater. common) where the internet
basic principles to launch an been able to shut down sites maintaining that infrastructure has At the same time, devices, public (or all of us) can interact.
effort to increase the resilience of located in China, block out sites been and still is a relatively whether they are mobile phones, … and the atmosphere needs all
the internet and help it grow located outside of China (through expensive effort. Laying down tablets, computers, or others, have of us to work together to ensure
beyond the current chokepoints what is often referred to as the and maintaining the cables and increasingly moved away from that a single party cannot poison
that have been created for it. great firewall of China), and has equipment used to distribute using cables to connect to the it.
The Infrastructure fairly tight control of the telecom captioned pictures of cats or internet, leveraging an alphabet A breath of Fresh Air
The internet, in my view, is a industry (the Red Army holds images from the latest revolt is soup of acronyms like EDGE, 3G, Today’s internet atmosphere can
c o m b i n a t i o n o f l o w - l e v e l substantial shareholder stakes in something that has required 4G, and Wi-Fi to access the be seen as largely divided
infrastructures and protocols that anyone doing business in China, investments in the billions, if not internet wirelessly. For the between control in the wireless
allow us all to connect to each including the telcos), giving it trillions of dollars globally. In purpose of further discussion, I space and control in the landline
other. It is, above all, a set of almost full control on the end to developed countries, that would like to know refer to space… and where control exists,
agreements between all parties end approach. infrastructure rebuilt happened wireless internet access as the the potential to cut off the air
involved as to what is and isn’t Activists have been moving sites mostly in the 1990s, one of the atmosphere. supply is stronger.
acceptable across the board. Some outside of China and using a greatest benefits from the dotcom Today, that space is still under Mobile phones and mobile
may argue otherwise (Some see variety of tools (most notably, explosions as investments in the the control of large entities, due to devices accessing the internet
t h e n e t a s t h e p h y s i c a l Tor) to bypass the great firewall early internet startups helped a combination of outdated over GSM, 3G, 4G, EDGE,
infrastructure that connect us; of China but they will be left subsidize one of the greatest intellectual property concepts and CDMA, WCDMA and other
some see the net as only the web; p o w e r l e s s i f t h e C h i n e s e buildouts in human history (in the foreceful lobbying by established acronym the telecom industry can
some see it as only companies like government decides to unplug the US alone, I would consider the players. However, many before throw at us are generally
Google, Facebook, etc… I don’t. I network infrastructure. effort to be on par with the great me have argued for opening up controlled by wireless telephone
see it as all encompassing.) At the end of the day, that pyramids). the wireless spectrum further. By companies. This is why one can
The infrastructure of the internet, infrastructure is currently the However, we have now learned using the atmosphere seldom take a device from one
however, is one that is still largely weakest point in the internet. The that wires are frail and the march nomenclature, I would argue that country to the next without being
held in private hands. I explored mess of wires and wireless of technology has fortunately locking down of the wireless
the subject at greater length last services that sits between your allowed us to move to something space is a form of pollution that HOW page 12
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Creating an Effective Twitter Image
Ted Tagalakis (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:03:00 PM
Twitter has become one of the
most popular ways for Internet
marketers to spread their message,
but if you don’t know how to
harness this powerful tool, it can
actually negatively impact your
marketing campaign. On the other
hand, a well executed Twitter
campaign may bolster your profits
and reputation on the Internet.
Projecting the right the image on
Twitter is the first step to
successfully marketing your
products or services on the
world’s most popular
microblogging site.
Projecting the right image starts
from the moment you sign up for
Twitter. You should choose a user
name which is quickly identifiable
and unique to you. Many people
opt to register their first and last
name as their Twitter username
and then associate that name with
a business Twitter account.
Remember, you cannot use
hyphens in your user name, but
you can use underscores.
After registering your account,
there’s several simple steps you
can take to immediately begin
building your Twitter reputation.
First, you should change the
background of your Twitter feed.
Changing the look of your page
helps your feed look personalized
and gives the impression that a
real person is running the page,
rather than a spam bot. Depending
on the background you use, it can
also help “brand” your Twitter
account. If you can’t make a
background for yourself, there’s
dozens of websites that offer high
quality backgrounds for free or
you can hire a designer to create a
custom background. You should
also take the time to personalize
your avatar with your own picture
or another image which is
uniquely you. Next, consider what
you will say in your bio space.
Your bio must be 160 characters
or less. That’s a small amount of
text, but you should not use it to
randomly keyword stuff. The best
Twitter bios use full sentences
and weave a few choice keywords
into the bio description. For
example, if you were tweeting
about travel deals to the
Caribbean, your bio might read
something like, “I’m a world
traveler, who enjoys trips to
Caribbean hotels. While on
vacation I enjoy going to the
beach, scuba diving, hiking, and
watersports.” Taking the time to
make your profile look just right
before adding followers will
immediately set you apart from
the thousands of marketers on
Twitter who appear to be
spammers.
Now that your Twitter page is
personalized, it’s time to start
putting Twitter into action.
Inexperienced marketers may start
plugging their services and
products right away, but if you’re
interested in becoming a well
respected Twitter marketer, you
will avoid this mistake. Instead,
you should provide several useful
and informative tweets that
establish you as someone
knowledgeable, or at least
interested in, the keywords you
are promoting. One of the
quickest ways to begin twittering
is to create links to interesting
blog posts or articles you find in
your niche. If possible, provide a
short commentary on the link
rather than just the link itself. A
great tweet will provide an
interesting and informative piece
of information, while also
provoking interaction. Returning
to the example of the marketer
who promotes Caribbean
vacations, a good tweet may read
something like: “Scuba in
Cozumel is great, but is Bonaire
better?” followed by a link to an
article about scuba diving in
Bonaire. This method is more
likely to produce replies or re-
tweets than simply posting the
link since it asks a question and
even adds a little controversy, as
different readers will have
different takes on which
destination is better. This tweet
also manages to work in a few
keywords. Cozumel and Bonaire
are both Caribbean destinations
and scuba is a bio keyword.
Google’s Caffeine upgrade is
focusing on social media, so it’s
more likely than ever that your
tweet will appear on Google, thus
increasing the need to include
keywords and LSI directly into
your tweets. Just remember that
it’s more important to be clear and
informative in your tweets than to
have them rank for keywords.
Once you have tweeted a few
useful links or messages, you will
want to start making an effort to
actively recruit followers. Many
marketers focus exclusively on
the quantity of followers, but this
can be somewhat short sighted
approach. A small targeted group
of followers is far more likely to
convert than a massive
hodgepodge of followers. That
being said, gaining a substantial
following is the only way to
successfully market on Twitter so
it is important that you are
proactive in finding them. If you
own a website, blog, or newsletter
be sure to mention your Twitter
username on them. Followers you
gain from this method are the best
prospects because they have
already shown an interest in
whatever products, services, or
information you are offering
through your Twitter feed.
However, it is important to find
new prospects on Twitter as well.
Use Twitter to search for other
users who have the same interests
as you and add them as friends.
Some people you add will
automatically reciprocate your
add, either manually or with
software. Others will check out
your Twitter page before agreeing
to add you. This is why it is so
important to build up your tweets
and personalize your page before
attempting to market yourself to
other Twitter users. When users
who are weary of spammers go to
your Twitter page and notice that
you have made an effort to
contribute something useful to the
Business/ 11
Twitter community, they will be
much more likely to add you than
someone who is just blasting the
Twitterverse with their affiliate
links and hasn’t even bothered to
write an appropriate bio. As more
people follow you, your account
will grow organically since people
will be re-tweeting your
information to their own
followers, causing some of them
to add you. In addition, some
marketers choose to pay for
Twitter followers. Paid services
can scale up your operation
quickly and some Twitter users
are more likely to follow accounts
which are popular, but it is
important to consider the cost-to-
value ratio of these services. One
final tip to keep in mind: adding
too many people at once may flag
your account as being spam and
Twitter has integrated ways to
prevent this behavior into their
system.
Once you have established your
presence as a trusted and
interesting tweeter you can begin
promoting your own products or
services on a limited basis.
Experts have suggested that you
should promote your own services
about 5% of the time on your own
Twitter account. This prevents
Twitter users, who have become
sensitive to marketers spamming
them, from deleting your account.
Of course, if you are presenting
truly useful information on your
blog or website, not just a sales
pitch, you can integrate those
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HOW
continued from page 10
forced to either switch carrier or
be faced with relatively expensive
fees for “roaming”.
The alternative for this is usually
seen as WiFi, which allows
anyone to set up a wireless
hotspot as long as the upstream
provider (the one the WiFi
hotspot is connected to) agrees to
it. So while few cable and phone
companies have objected to WiFi
hotspots being connected by
individuals to date, they could
easily shut down access to the
internet at those end points.
What we now need is an
infrastructure that would route
around those end points and
create a mesh network between
different hotspot that are not
connected to each other.
Cues From Nature
The net interprets censorship as
damage and routes around it —
John Gilmore
The atmosphere is resilient and
tends to self-correct. For example,
if a toxic particle shows up in the
atmosphere, other components of
the atmosphere can deal with it.
And while an area of the
atmosphere can be damaged at a
time, all the other areas can help
repair it over time.
So if there is pollution in Bhopal
India, the overall atmosphere
eventually dissipates that
pollution and the system is
restored.
All this happens without anyone
pulling a trigger, or without any
major catalytic event. It’s the
work of billions or trillions of
particles all working in
conjunction with each other to
keep things going. It’s a pattern
that repeats itself in nature time
and again. Ants work together to
repair their farms after it’s been
flooded; bees work together to
fend off attack by a hungry bear;
the whole ecosystem works
together to balance out preys and
predators. It’s an evolutionary
battle we can all take cues from.
And it is one that the internet
needs to take its cues from. For
the internet to survive in the long
run, it needs a healthy
atmosphere… and that’s where
you come in.
As nature gives us cues about
collective action to ensure the
well being of all the group, even
in the face of a threat against an
individual, we must find a way to
work collectively to ensure the
well being of the net in future.
A global mesh
I believe that markets, by their
own nature, can be one of the best
route around censorship. My main
reason for that belief is that every
time a company closes a door in
the marketplace, one of its
competitors starts looking at
keeping that door open as a
competitive advantage.
So, in the wireless space, an
uneasy peace has been struck
between the operators where most
of them agree to not shut down
most of the internet, because it is
in their best economic interest to
do so.
As I’ve highlighted earlier,
however, there are certain areas
where the market does not help.
For example, when a border is
crossed, a device can lose its
access to the net because the
operator is not running services in
that geographical area and
therefore doesn’t care to
establishing any kind of peering
agreement with other companies
in that country. Another extreme
end of this is the current situation
in several middle eastern
countries, where dictators can go
to the few operators of networks
in their country and tell them to
shut down or suffer the
consequences.
So the only way around such
issue is to distribute the control of
the atmosphere as widely as
possible: to create millions or
billions of particles that allow all
systems to breathe easily.
In other words, the way to route
around any potential damage to
the atmosphere is to create a set of
protocols that will allow any
device to talk to each other and
agree to route traffic from and to
each other when needed. In the
next entry, I will introduce what I
consider some of the basic
principles to define such a set of
protocols. I do not have all the
technical solutions (but I expect
that some my readers will be
inspired to put the call to action
and figure out the technical
details) but I can provide a basic
framework that people can build
on.
Wrap-up
As the true embodiment of
Jefferson’s marketplace of
exchange of ideas, the Internet
has now become a tool to increase
democracy, improve lives, and
hopefully make earth a better
place for all of us. As such, it has
also become a threat to
established orders, and many are
fighting to shut portions of it or
all of it down.
Whether it is censorship in
China, lockout in Lybia, blocking
wikileaks, or denial of service
attacks, the atmosphere should be
resilient enough to route around
and to ensure that internet public
still has access to the public
internet… and it is incumbent
upon us all to figure out how to
ensure the internet atmosphere is
not polluted by the fumes of
censorship.
A special thank you goes out to
Doc Searls and Kevin Werbach
for helping me tighten up this
piece.
Tristan Louis is the founder and
CEO of Keepskor and writes the
influential tnl.net weblog, where
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Western Digital
Bulks Up with a $4.3
Billion Storage Deal
Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: Major Movement,
Deals
When it comes to hard-disk
drives, Western Digital ( WDC) is
the largest publicly traded
operator in the U.S. And with its
recent deal, it will get much
larger. That is, the company has
agreed to pay $4.3 billion for the
data storage business of Hitachi.
Based on the stock move for
Western Digital, investors love
the transaction. In early Monday
trading, the shares were up a
sizzling 17.33% to $35.21.
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Aflac Inches Toward
$60 a Share
Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 1:00:00 PM
Filed under: AFLAC Inc (AFL),
Stocks to Buy
Totally unsexy play Aflac Inc. (
AFL), an insurer that I first wrote
about on May 28, 2009, at a price
of $36.07, has progressed toward
$60 this winter. I still like the
stock at this stage, and here's why.
Aflac's 2011 revenue will likely
increase an impressive 9% to
11%, including a solid
performance in Japan (a major
market for AFL, with more than
14 million policies), despite
difficult comparisons and
recovering consumer demand in
the United States. Meanwhile, a
CREATING
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The Selloff Gets Worse, As Copper
Plunges, And The White House
Discusses Arming The Rebels
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:07:35 PM
The selloff is getting worse.
Copper is getting hammered. It's
down over 3%.
Treasuries are rallying.
Smart Business: Jeremy Gutsche
on His Exploiting Chaos Book -
(TrendHunter.com)
(TREND HUNTER - The Latest
Trends)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:58:02 AM
( TrendHunter.com) As
businesses begin to rise up once
more following the recent
Business/ Technology/ News Wire/ Food/
It screams deflation.
And The White House says an
option is that it could arm Mideast
rebels, though it has no plans to
do so.
The NASDAQ is off over 2%.
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Wisconsin's Democrats ask for talks on unions

(Reuters: Top News) bill to close a budget gap in the that vote would give Democrats Ohio's Senate last week approved friends a free-ride on taxes, then
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:02:20 AM current fiscal year. more leverage in seeking changes restrictions on public sector he guts the life out of the middle
The proposals have touched off to Walker's proposed 2011-13 two unions, and similar measures are class to pay for it. Two thirds of
A protester holds a flag as weeks of pro-union rallies at the -year budget. under consideration in several the corporations in Wisconsin
demonstrators continue to occupy Capitol Building in Madison and Walker proposed increased other states including Tennessee, don’t pay any taxes. And I heard
the state Capitol in protest against around the country to protest the payments for health care and Indiana, Kansas and Idaho. the Tea-Freaks had no idea. Of
proposed budget cuts in Madison, changes which Walker said are pension benefits for public (Writing by David Bailey, Editing coarse they didn’t, they’re to
Wisconsin February 27, 2011. needed to fix a state budget workers but also stripping most of by Greg McCune) dumb to think for themselves.
Credit: Reuters/Darren Hauck deficit. their unions of most key • Share this They do as Murdoch and the
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the state more than two weeks ago to Wisconsin and Miller on to show up for the vote to be TerryinNevada wrote: the big-boys. This way the Govt. /
to block a vote on a Republican Monday said state residents were completed. This new-found desire by these taxpayers will owe me money at
plan to limit public sector union "overwhelmingly supportive of us Walker has shown few signs of rogue Dems for a: “reasonable the end of the quarter, even
powers asked on Monday to reaching a bipartisan, negotiated compromise, telling reporters on negotiated settlement,…” is though I made 300 million in
"resume serious discussions" to compromise." Thursday that "extremist s i c k e n i n g . W h y d i d n ’ t t h e profits.
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Libyan Rebels Fear Greater Assault

(FOXNews.com) halt for now a rebel advance that A British diplomat at the U.N. side in the past three days of Misrata, to the east of Tripoli
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:27:29 AM began last week when fighters stressed that the draft resolution is fighting and 169 wounded. about halfway to Sirte. But
ventured beyond the opposition- being prepared in case it is needed The rebels regrouped about 40 Valerie Amos, United Nations
RAS LANOUF, Libya -- Libyan controlled eastern half of the but no decision has been made to miles to the east in Ras Lanouf, under-secretary-general for
warplanes launched multiple country. introduce it at the Security where MiG fighters circled over humanitarian affairs and
airstrikes Monday on opposition The rebels are now struggling to Council. He spoke on condition of rebel positions Monday before emergency relief coordinator, said
fighters regrouping at an oil port m a i n t a i n s u p p l y l i n e s f o r anonymity because the draft has launching airstrikes behind their in a statement that the Benghazi
on the Mediterranean coast, the weapons, ammunition and food, not been made public. front lines in the morning and Red Crescent reported that
second day of a harsh government with many living off junk food, Libya appears to be sliding afternoon. Misrata was under attack by
counteroffensive to thwart a rebel cookies and cans of tuna. They toward a civil war that could drag In and around Bin Jawwad, pro- government forces again Monday.
a d v a n c e t o w a r d M u a m m a r are waiting for rocket launchers, out for weeks, or even months, as regime forces were running There have been repeated
Qaddafi's stronghold in the capital tanks and other heavy weapons to rebels try to oust Qaddafi after 41 patrols Monday and there were government attempts to regain
Tripoli. arrive with reinforcements from years. Resorting to heavy use of minor reports of skirmishes with control of Misrata.
President Barack Obama said the their headquarters in the eastern air attacks signaled the regime's rebels on the outskirts. "Humanitarian organizations need
U.S. and its NATO allies are still city of Benghazi. concern that it needed to check One strike hit a road near the urgent access now," she said.
considering a military response to Meanwhile, the U.S. has moved the advance of the rebel force town's only gas station, destroying "People are injured and dying and
the violence and Britain and military forces closer to its shores toward Sirte -- Qaddafi's at least three vehicles and need help immediately."
France were drafting a U.N. to back up its demand that hometown and a bastion of wounding at least two people. The uprising against Qaddafi is
resolution that would establish a Qaddafi step down. But enforcing support for the longtime leader. The opposition also holds two already longer and much bloodier
no-fly zone. U.N. aid officials a no-fly zone could take weeks to Anti-Qaddafi forces would get a main battleground cities close to than the relatively quick revolts
said up to 1 million foreign organize, and U.S. Defense massive morale boost if they can Tripoli, and the government that overthrew the longtime
workers and others trapped in Secretary Robert Gates has noted blast through Sirte, a major appears to have solidified control authoritarian leaders of
Libya are expected to need that it must be preceded by a obstacle on the march toward Monday of one of them -- neighboring Egypt and Tunisia.
emergency aid because of fighting military operation to take out Tripoli. Zawiya. Just 30 miles outside Unusually heavy and sustained
in the North African nation. Libya's air defenses. British Libya's main population centers Tripoli, Zawiya had been the city shooting that erupted before dawn
The anti-government forces Foreign Minister William Hague lie along the country's main east- closest to the capital in opposition in Tripoli on Sunday gave rise to
trying to oust Qaddafi say they said Sunday that a no-fly zone west highway on the hands. rumors and reports that there had
will be outgunned if the regime over Libya is still in an early stage Mediterranean coast and the A Zawiya resident said been an assassination attempt
continues to unleash its air power of planning and ruled out the use struggle for control of the country government tanks and artillery against Qaddafi by someone
on them and are pleading for the of ground forces. is being waged between the opened fire on rebels around 9:00 inside the fortress-like barracks
international community to Obama said the U.S. will stand government and the rebels trying am and the attack hadn't stopped where he lives.
impose a no-fly zone to protect with the Libyan people as they to push the front line westward when he left the city at 1:30 p.m. But a government spokesman,
them from more strikes. However, face "unacceptable" violence. He toward the capital. All entrances to the city were Abdel-Majid al-Dursi, denied it
they oppose foreign troops on the said he has authorized millions of A force estimated at 500 to 1,000 under government control and the on Monday, calling the claims
ground. dollars in humanitarian aid. He fighters was pushing steadily rebels had been driven out of the "baseless rumors."
"We don't want a foreign military also sent a strong message to down the highway toward Tripoli city's central Martyr's Square and Hundreds if not thousands of
intervention, but we do want a no- Qaddafi, saying he and his when it was driven out of the a nearby mosque by the heaviest people have died since Libya's
fly zone, said rebel fighter Ali s u p p o r t e r s w i l l b e h e l d town of Bin Jawwad, 375 east of attack in several days. uprising began, although tight
Suleiman. "We are all waiting for responsible for the violence there. the capital, on Sunday by pro- "The tanks are everywhere," he restrictions on media make it near
one," he added. The rebels can Hague told the House of Qaddafi forces using helicopter said. "The hospital is running out impossible to get an accurate
take on "the rockets and the tanks, Commons Monday that Britain is gunships, artillery and rockets. of supplies. There are injured tally. More than 200,000 people
but not Qaddafi's air force" he "working closely with partners on Gebril Hewadi, a doctor at Al- everywhere who can't find a place have fled the country, most of
said. a contingency basis on elements Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi, said to go."
The government has managed to of a resolution on a no-fly zone." 30 have been killed on the rebel Rebels also held much of LIBYAN page 17
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U.S. could tap oil reserves as gasoline price surges

(Reuters: Top News) the past week, White House Chief economic recovery and damage authorized to be quoted by the users (you have to take
Submitted at 3/7/2011 7:39:32 AM of Staff William Daley told NBC President Barack Obama media. possession) can take out a
television's "Meet the Press" on politically as he moves toward a OPEC powerhouse Saudi Arabia contract on oil. ROWnine wrote:
A woman stands in front of gas Sunday: "We are looking at the 2012 re-election bid. has stepped up production It’s supply and demand. No
prices at a petrol kiosk in Dal options. The issue of the reserves NOT 2008 significantly, but oil prices remainshortage of people driving SUV’s
Mar, California March 1, 2011. is one we are considering." The U.S. Strategic Petroleum high. The risk for markets is that and club cab 4X4’s in my
Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake "It is something that only is done - Reserve holds 727 million barrels the wave of North African and neighborhood. No reason why
By Jackie Frank and Lewis - has been done -- in very rare of oil, or about 38 days of Middle East protests could spread Uncle Sam hasn’t put a $3
Krauskopf occasions. There's a bunch of consumption, and has only been to major Gulf oil producers, deficient surcharge on gas.
WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE| factors that have to be looked at tapped a handful of times since it cutting off supplies that would be Truckers are all claiming its gas
Mon Mar 7, 2011 8:39am EST and it is just not the price," he was created in the mid-1970s after impossible to make up from other prices but lots go one way with
W A S H I N G T O N / added. "All matters have to be on the Arab oil embargo. It was last producers. cargo. We don’t need to truck cars
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immediate supply shortage, some was $3.50 on March 4, according Libya, which has cut off an (speculators). There is no REAL supply chains open!
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Retailer GAME introduces pre-orders on used games

Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:53:00 AM
pre-owned games, just a week owned rack at a slight discount. upcoming titles. It will save
after they come out. But now, GAME is making it gamers around £5 if they can
UK retailer GAME is trialling a Normally, you can waltz into even easier by offering wait seven days. Continue
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LIBYAN
'East Coast Rapist' Suspect Due for First Court continued from page 15

them foreign workers. The exodus

Date is creating a humanitarian crisis

across the border with Tunisia --
another North African country in
(FOXNews.com) hospital stay. c o l l e c t e d a n d s u b s e q u e n t l y The assailant eluded police even
turmoil after an uprising in
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:27:29 AM At the time of his arrest, Thomas matched by the state police though the crimes were often
January that ousted its longtime
was living in a two-story home in forensic lab confirming Thomas c o m m i t t e d o u t d o o r s , l a w
Authorities are crediting a new New Haven with his girlfriend, was the East Coast Rapist. e n f o r c e m e n t o f f i c i a l s s a y . leader.
digital billboard campaign in the ctnow.com reports. The turmoil is being felt more
Investigators reportedly got In some instances, the attacker
capture of a suspected serial rapist A task force of U.S. marshals and Thomas' DNA off a discarded wore a mask or hooded sweatshirt broadly still in the form of rising
accused of terrorizing women local police followed him around cigarette. oil prices. Libya's oil production
to conceal his face. He typically
with sexual assaults in at least -- looking for a chance to collect Police have a warrant charging approached women outdoors on has been seriously crippled by the
four states over 12 years. unrest.
his DNA -- after authorities Thomas with first-degree sexual foot and threatened them with a
Police say DNA confirmed that received a tip from Prince assault and risk of injury to a knife, screwdriver or a handgun, The conflict in Libya took a turn
39-year-old Aaron Thomas, an William County, Va., according minor and he was being held on investigators say. late last week when government
unemployed truck driver, is the to the station. opponents, backed by mutinous
$1 million bond, Johnson said. The only attack in New Haven
man law enforcement dubbed the army units and armed with
Police said that when they Authorities in Prince William came on Jan. 10, 2007. Police said
"East Coast Rapist." weaponry seized from
arrested Thomas on Friday, he County, Virginia, are charging the suspect entered a 27-year-old
Federal authorities arrested asked them, "What took you so him with being a fugitive as well woman's bedroom through an s t o r e h o u s e s , w e n t o n t h e
Thomas on Friday after receiving long?" the New Haven Register as rape and abduction charges and open window and threatened to offensive. At the same time, pro-
an anonymous tip linking him to reports. Qaddafi forces have conducted
use of a firearm while committing kill her sleeping infant son before
the assaults. The East Coast "It's just shocking to me," said 15- a felony. counteroffensives to try to retake
assaulting her.
Rapist is wanted for 17 rapes and year-old Dashawn Golding, who Thomas' arrest comes after the The last known attack occurred the towns and oil ports the rebels
other attacks in Connecticut, said his mother is Thomas' FBI, aided by police departments on Halloween night in 2009, when have captured since they moved
Maryland, Rhode Island and girlfriend. "She's crying a lot," he in seven states, announced a two teenagers on their way home out of the rebel-held east.
Virginia that began in 1997. The said of his mother. This entry passed through the
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Designer Revives the Letterpress Through the iPad

(Epoch Times | All headlines) designer and typographer you’re same applied to the letters he
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:54:18 AM able to experience the creation of wanted. In order to achieve the
typographical forms like people authentic look, Bonadies would
By Joshua Phillips did 50 years ago or 30 years ago need to track down the carved
Epoch Times Staff Created: Mar when people were still using letter letters scattered across the
7, 2011 Last Updated: Mar 7, presses at the end of an era,” he country. “What I’m doing is more
2011 said. to celebrate the beauty of wood
CLASSIC STYLE: A print made The iPad app, LetterMpress is type,” he said, adding that doing
in the LetterMpress app is currently in its pre-release form. otherwise would be
displayed on an iPad. The prints Users can position letters and “disingenuous.”
use photographs of actual prints symbols on a digital letterpress. The problem is that each of the
using traditional wood type. The app can be used to design letters is an antique, as are the
(Courtesy of Bonadies Creative) posters and images that can be letterpresses he needed to roll out
A m i d t o o l s a n d d u s t i n a transferred to other programs or prints with them. Acquiring the
M i d w e s t e r n b a r n r e s t s a printed for actual use. necessary pieces and completing
letter—carved and sanded with In order to capture the authentic the programming of the app
care, a remnant of a classic art look, the app uses high-resolution would cost around $15,000.
now forgotten. It was not long ago photographs of actual antique Bonadies turned to Kickstarter, a
that the letterpress—a tray of w o o d t y p e a n d t h e i r website where anyone can post
carved stamps—was the method corresponding prints. Bonadies
The wood type is left from an age that I call ‘idle assets’ that you projects and request donations.
for printing everything from expects the project to be finished
more elegant—from a time when could make use of,” Bonadies R e s p o n s e s c a m e l i k e a n
books to billboards. by early summer. Rekindling an avalanche.
a typographer would sit at his said.
The printing method which had Old Art
workbench, twisting his mustache The work ahead dawned on him “I didn’t expect it to take off like
previously survived the test of There are two main types of
while looking down through while speaking with friends in the it did,” Bonadies said. By March
time has begun its gradual l e t t e r s u s e d i n t h e o l d
bifocals at a wooden piece before computer programming industry. 6, with close to 45 days to go, the
decline, becoming yet another l e t t e r p r e s s e s — w o o d a n d
carefully smoothing its last edge. Recreating the look of the carved project received $24,710 in
casualty at the dawn of the m e t a l — y e t t h e c h o i c e f o r
For the typographer, his work l e t t e r s w o u l d b e n e a r l y donations through 880 backers.
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Sir Ben Kingsley Speaks at the Holocaust Museum

(Epoch Times | All headlines) accountant and collaborator in Kingsley said he thinks if
Submitted at 3/7/2011 3:32:14 PM compiling the list of Jews to be Schindler was asked why he did
transported to work in Schindler’s what he did, his answer would
By Anna Skibinsky factory and saved from facing the have been, “under the
Epoch Times Staff Created: Mar final eradication of the Jews of circumstances, what else could I
7, 2011 Last Updated: Mar 6, Krakow Ghetto who were sent to have done.”
2011 the Auschwitz concentration “We have to be careful not to
Sir Ben Kingsley, famous for his camp. outlaw tragedy,” said Kingsley,
portrayal of Gandhi, spoke about “To wear a yellow star in film is adding that when young children
his film roles at the United States an enormous responsibility,” are shown the movie "Schindler’s
Holocaust Memorial Museum last Kingsley said of the symbol that List," many do not understand or
week. (Courtesy of the U.S. the Nazis forced Jews to wear believe that it is based on history
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Miriam Lomaskin ) Actor Sir Ben “To wear a yellow star in a film is place.
Kingsley, famous for his portrayal very unsettling.” For Kingsley, Kingsley explained the
of Gandhi, spoke about his film playing the part of Itzhak Stern importance of using tragedy such
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How to generate a viral hit in five steps

Submitted at 3/7/2011 8:43:00 AM
viral videos -- using them as Group's head of digital marketing Nixon discussed how best to
leverage for live ticket sales and David Emery; The Viral Factory's ensure that your music video
For music artists seeking to raise to generate sponsorship. strategy director Matt Smith; achieved viral success.
their profile, having a video that Last week, Wired.co.uk attended PIAS Entertainment Group's head Here are the five pieces of advice
goes viral can telescope their an event run by MusicTank, of digital marketing Darren from the event. Continue
career in a matter of weeks. entitled "It Started with a Click: Hemmings; MUZU TV's reading...
Some bands, such as OK Go, How to Spawn a Viral Hit". Harris, a panel including Beggars European head of marketing Rob
have made a career out of creating Chaired by MusicTank's Keith Gotlieb; and filmmaker Dan
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Team Headed to Playoffs After Teen Skype for Windows to

Player's Death Start Displaying Ads
(FOXNews.com) Leonard's small town near Lake estimated 1,400 fans watching. Audrey Watters
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:27:29 AM Michigan remembered him Friday "Thirty seconds earlier, he was (ReadWriteWeb)
as an "all-American kid" whose laying in the winning bucket," Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:23:52 AM
A M i c h i g a n h i g h s c h o o l athletic heroics had been local said Ryan Klingler, basketball
basketball team still mourning the legend since middle school, when coach in Fennville, about 200 The popular VOIP service Skype
sudden death of its 16-year-old opposing coaches sometimes miles west of Detroit. "And then will start displaying advertising in
star player will compete in the asked to see his birth certificate, 10 seconds later ... everything's its Home tab beginning this week.
state tournament Monday night. reluctant to believe that someone pulled out from under you, from The company has just announced
The Fennville Blackhawks will so young could be so skilled. out of nowhere." the change, insisting that "the
compete in the Michigan High "He was a good kid, a good friend Click to read more about Wes Skype experience is our first
School Athletic Association boys to have and a good person to hang Leonard and the Fennville game priority." The move to bring
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Game Review: ‘Torchlight’ for Ask TUAW: The iPad 2

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Torchlight ( Runic Games
Inc.)"Torchlight" is a wonderful
XBLA title brought to you from
the creators of Diablo. It’s a
lengthy RPG/action adventure
game with a surprising amount of
depth in both the progression
system and the various quests and
gameplay mechanics.
Armed with various
combinations of weapons—from
swords and axes, to bows and
pistols—and fueled with magic
power that you can unleash on
your foes, "Torchlight" sets you
out into the dungeons below the
eponymous town to try and save it
from an evil tyrant. Along the
way you’ll encounter huge variety
in environments and enemies,
while leveling up and building
your character as you see fit.
There are loads of different spells
and abilities to create your
character into a formidable
opponent.
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honor of Apple's latest gadget,
we're having an iPad edition of
Ask TUAW this week! We got a
few interesting queries from last
week's post, but this is going to
get mighty boring without your
questions about the iPad 2, which
will be released on Friday!
Here's what we need you to do:
go to the comments of this post,
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great gameplay and charming Guardian's Economics Editor. asks:
visual flair, as well as a I own a first generation AT&T
reasonable price. 3G iPad and will be upgrading to
the iPad 2. I am grandfathered
into the unlimited data package
for $30 a month.
Can I transfer my data plan to my
new iPad or are the data service
"subscriptions" connected to a
specific device?
Yes, you can! AT&T confirmed
with me that it will be possible to
grandfather your unlimited data
plan to the iPad 2, but it hasn't
released the exact mechanism for
this upgrade. Most likely it will
involve removing your micro-
SIM from your original iPad and
slapping it in your brand new iPad
2. We've got a few more days for
everyone to figure out how it's
going to work though.
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Chris Ward (TUAW)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:00:00 PM
When you're fed up with your
Mac telling you it's not about to
open the pod bay doors and
wondering if, Dave, you really
want to do that, you may want to
think about making some custom
sounds for it yourself. And, as
luck would have it, there's a great
tutorial on how to do just this over
at Macworld.
The article looks at both
recording your own sounds and
using GarageBand to convert your
sound files, and how to add the
resulting sounds to your system.
The article walks you through
capturing your own sounds using
a microphone and QuickTime
Player in Snow Leopard,
including how to get rid of initial
pauses and the sound of you
clicking your mouse at the end of
the recording.
And it goes on to discuss how to
convert your recordings to the
AIFF format needed for system
sounds in OS X using iTunes or
GarageBand, and then how to
insert the sounds into your system
and attach them to specific events.
Again, it's a nice tutorial that we
recommend you check out. Have
fun.
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The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and
Globalization, at Crossroads
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 3/6/2011 11:12:00 PM
Events in Libya are a further
reminder for Americans that we
stand at a crossroads in our
continuing evolution as the
world's sole full-service
superpower. Unfortunately, we
are increasingly seeking change
without cost, and shirking from
risk because we are tired of the
responsibility. We don't know
who we are anymore, and our
president is a big part of that
problem. Instead of leading us, he
explains to us. Barack Obama
would have us believe that he is
practicing strategic patience. But
many experts and ordinary
citizens alike have concluded that
he is actually beset by strategic
incoherence-- in effect, a man
overmatched by the job.
It is worth first examining the
larger picture: We live in a time
of arguably the greatest structural
change in the global order yet
endured, with this historical
moment's most amazing feature
being its relative and absolute
lack of mass violence. That is
something to consider when
Americans contemplate military
intervention in Libya, because if
we do take the step to prevent
larger-scale killing by engaging in
some killing of our own, we will
not be adding to some
fantastically imagined global
death count stemming from the
ongoing "megalomania" and
"evil" of American "empire."
We'll be engaging in the same sort
of system-administering activity
that has marked our stunningly
successful stewardship of global
order since World War II.
Let me be more blunt: As the
guardian of globalization, the U.S.
military has been the greatest
force for peace the world has ever
known. Had America been
removed from the global
dynamics that governed the 20th
century, the mass murder never
would have ended. Indeed, it's
entirely conceivable there would
now be no identifiable human
civilization left, once nuclear
weapons entered the killing
equation.
But the world did not keep
sliding down that path of
perpetual war. Instead, America
stepped up and changed
everything by ushering in our now
-perpetual great-power peace. We
introduced the international
liberal trade order known as
globalization and played loyal
Leviathan over its spread. What
resulted was the collapse of
empires, an explosion of
democracy, the persistent spread
of human rights, the liberation of
women, the doubling of life
expectancy, a roughly 10-fold
increase in adjusted global GDP
and a profound and persistent
reduction in battle deaths from
state-based conflicts.
That is what American "hubris"
actually delivered. Please
remember that the next time some
TV pundit sells you the image of
"unbridled" American military
power as the cause of global
disorder instead of its cure.
With self-deprecation bordering
on self-loathing, we now imagine
a post-American world that is
anything but. Just watch who
scatters and who steps up as the
Facebook revolutions erupt across
the Arab world. While we might
imagine ourselves the status quo
power, we remain the world's
most vigorously revisionist force.
As for the sheer "evil" that is our
military-industrial complex,
again, let's examine what the
world looked like before that
establishment reared its ugly
head.
The last great period of global
structural change was the first half
of the 20th century, a period that
saw a death toll of about 100
million across two world wars.
That comes to an average of 2
million deaths a year in a world of
approximately 2 billion souls.
Today, with far more
comprehensive worldwide
reporting, researchers report an
average of less than 100,000
battle deaths annually in a world
fast approaching 7 billion people.
Though admittedly crude, these
calculations suggest a 90 percent
absolute drop and a 99 percent
relative drop in deaths due to war.
We are clearly headed for a
world order characterized by
multipolarity, something the
American-birthed system was
designed to both encourage and
accommodate. But given how
things turned out the last time we
collectively faced such a fluid
structure, we would do well to
keep U.S. power, in all of its
forms, deeply embedded in the
geometry to come.
To continue the historical survey,
after salvaging Western Europe
from its half-century of civil war,
the U.S. emerged as the
progenitor of a new, far more just
form of globalization -- one based
on actual free trade rather than
colonialism. America then
successfully replicated
globalization further in East Asia
over the second half of the 20th
century, setting the stage for the
Pacific Century now unfolding.
As a result, the vector of structure
-building connectivity shifted
from trans-Atlantic to trans-
Pacific. But if the connectivity
push of the past several decades
has been from West to East, with
little connectivity extended to the
South outside of the narrow trade
of energy and raw materials, the
current connectivity dynamic is
dramatically different. Now, the
dominant trends are: first, the East
cross-connecting back to the West
via financial and investment flows
as well as Asian companies
"going global"; and second, the
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East creating vast new
connectivity networks with the
South through South-South trade
and investment.
The challenge here is how to
adjust great-power politics to
these profound forces of structural
change. Because of the West's
connectivity to the East, we are by
extension becoming more deeply
connected to the unstable South,
with China as the primary
conduit. Meanwhile, America's
self-exhausting post-Sept. 11
unilateralist bender triggered the
illusion -- all the rage these days -
- of a G-Zero, post-American
world. The result, predictably
enough for manic-depressive
America, is that we've sworn off
any overall responsibility for the
South, even as we retain the right
to go anywhere and kill any
individuals -- preferably with
flying robots -- that we deem
immediately threatening to our
narrowly defined national security
interests.
The problem with this approach
is that China has neither the
intention nor the ability to step up
and play anything resembling a
responsible Leviathan over the
restive South, where
globalization's advance -- again,
with a Chinese face -- produces a
lot of near-term instability even as
it builds the basis for longer-term
stability.
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The Promise and Peril of Middle Eastern Revolutions
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 6:02:00 AM
History demonstrates that
revolutions often result in new or
renewed forms of despotism. One
reason for caution regarding the
future of the Arab Uprising is that
few Middle Eastern countries
have political pasts not dominated
by monarchy, theocracy or the
military. So previous rebellions
ultimately enhanced rather than
mitigated socio-political
intolerance. After all, Iran's
activist mullahs and al-Qaida's
founders were the products of
rebellions against monarchist
totalitarianism, too.
It remains to be seen whether
Egypt will become more
democratic or return to military
rule, or if the turbulence of the
post-Mubarak period will open
the door for the Muslim
Brotherhood to gain power. The
Brotherhood claims to have
changed, but its leaders still speak
of clashing with the U.S., the EU
and Israel. Moreover, the
Brotherhood did not renounce
violence voluntarily. It was
compelled to do so by a half-
century of counterviolence
directed at it by Gamal Abdel
Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni
Mubarak. The latter used the
threat of an Islamist takeover to
justify his administration's
excesses. The same danger may
well be recycled by Egypt's High
Military Council to rationalize a
junta.
What holds for Egypt applies to
Tunisia, too, with its Ennahda, or
Renaissance, party. Yes, Tunisian
society may appear to be
regaining its normal day-to-day
functioning, but the real tests for
achieving enduring political
freedom that avoids both
theocracy and martial rule lie
ahead. Again, organizational
experience will favor Islamists
and military men over secularists
unless the latter swiftly enhance
their cohesion and effectiveness.
Libya is an even more troubling
case. Like Tunisia, the country
lacks major secular opposition
groups. Those that have coalesced
recently have few administrative
structures to ensure their long-
term viability. So while the end of
Moammar Gadhafi's rule would
certainly be welcome, his ouster
may have the regrettable
consequence of opening the
political door to Muslim
fundamentalist organizations --
the only ones with any legitimacy
or track record as the political
opposition.
Outcomes in Bahrain and Yemen
could have even worse
consequences. If violent struggles
spread through those two nations,
the battles will take on sectarian
overtones -- poor Shiites versus
privileged Sunnis. That may draw
Iran and Saudi Arabia, intent on
preserving their own authoritarian
regimes, into a proxy conflict.
Yet, the hope that history is not
doomed to repeat itself seems
more than mere optimism in an
age when technological advances
expand the reach of ideas to
inspire peoples long thought to be
beaten into submission by
putatively immutable traditions
and self-serving leaders. Both
Bahrain and Yemen, for instance,
could choose the path of
nonviolent constitutional reform,
thereby excluding external power
players while reinvigorating their
national politics. Likewise, the
establishment of reasonably free
and representative political
systems in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt,
Bahrain and Yemen -- even if
they are not completely free and
fully representative at their
inception -- would go a long way
toward establishing a powerful
and welcome new model for the
Middle East. That fresh paradigm
may very well set the stage for the
gradual or even sudden ouster of
the theocrats ruling Iran and the
dictator, Bashar al-Assad, ruling
Syria. It certainly would compel
the monarchs of Jordan, the
United Arab Emirates and Saudi
Arabia to begin seriously
recasting their own political
systems.
Should Muslim majorities prevail
in their quests for secular self-
governance, they would be firmly
eschewing the replacement of one
form of totalitarianism for
another. Essentially, today's
protesters and rebels could
reshape the current repressive
systems of the Middle East by
demonstrating that radical change
can be democratic and secular
rather than intolerant and
fundamentalist. These political
transformations would
marginalize al-Qaida and its
hopes for a militant caliphate as
well as the mullahs and their
system of rule by Islamic jurists.
The greatest roadblock to
freedom, however, is that Muslim
countries from Morocco to Iran
have few institutions in place to
truly represent and protect their
people. Citizens of those nations
know that freedom means
political and economic
sustainability, but their past often
seduces them into settling for the
illusion of stability via
totalitarianism in the form of
monarchy, oligarchy or theocracy.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton has noted correctly that
"political participation must be
open to all people across the
spectrum who reject violence,
uphold equality and agree to play
by the rules of democracy." In
tandem, the White House has
concluded that national
organizations such as the Muslim
Brotherhood will adapt to
democracy because they do not
follow al-Qaida's transnational
goals. However, like military
dictators, mullahs and monarchs,
Islamist groups need not aspire to
global hegemony to be intolerant
and undemocratic at home or
adversarial around the world.
Yet it is refreshing to see the
world's foremost superpower
taking a nonmilitary approach to
these new foreign policy
challenges. America's most
enduring influences are its
example of democracy and its
ability to shape the cause of
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freedom through the judicious use
of intellectual and financial
intercourse. These peaceful tools
are constantly underestimated,
just as military clout is
overestimated. Indeed, a large
component of Washington's
impotence vis-à-vis Tehran is the
lack of economic leverage the
U.S. exercises there after years of
broad-spectrum sanctions.
Arabs deserve respect and
admiration for their efforts to
demand their rights from their
leaders, and, where possible, they
need aid in rebuilding their
fractured societies. Yet with
privilege also comes
responsibility: They must rein in
extremism and violence not just
directed at each other but also
against other societies -- or else
they will face punitive measures
and the loss of their newfound
stature within the community of
nations.
Jamsheed K. Choksy is professor
of Central Eurasian, International,
and Islamic Studies and former
director of the Middle Eastern
Studies Program at Indiana
University. He also is a member
of the National Council on the
Humanities at the U.S. National
Endowment for the Humanities.
Carol E. B. Choksy is adjunct
lecturer in Strategic Intelligence
and Information Management at
Indiana University. She also is
CEO of IRAD Strategic
Consulting, Inc.
The views expressed are their
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The Limitations of a No-Fly Zone Over Libya
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 3/6/2011 11:26:00 PM
Unlike the successful uprisings in
neighboring Tunisia and Egypt,
characterized by largely unarmed
protests and government
crackdowns with tear gas and
bullets, Libya is now in the midst
of a full-bore violent civil war.
Refusing to stand down, Col.
Moammar Gadhafi has vowed "to
fight until the last man and last
woman to defend Libya from east
to west, north to south." While
rebel forces have taken control of
many town and cities, forces loyal
to Gadhafi firmly control Tripoli,
the country's capital, and have
started to contest the rebels'
control of strategic town and
cities over the past week. The
fighter jets and attack helicopters
at Gadhafi's disposal will enable
his forces to intensify the conflict,
leading to the deaths of many
more Libyans and expanding
Gadhafi's territorial control.
Opposition leaders have called on
the United Nations to authorize
the imposition of a no-fly zone,
but given Russia and China's
resistance to these calls, the U.N.
Security Council is unlikely to
consider the request. There is a
possibility that the Arab League
and the African Union may
partner to shut down Libya's
airspace, but it is not clear which
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operation. Similarly, some
European and American leaders
have publicly discussed the
possibility of using NATO to
impose a no-fly zone over Libya.
Supporters of a no-fly zone claim
that it would limit Gadhafi's
ability to kill Libyans and fly in
mercenaries and other supplies
from neighboring countries.
Libyan opposition figures also
argue that a no-fly zone would
shift the balance of military power
in their favor, a view shared by
U.S. Sens. John McCain and
Joseph Lieberman as well as by
British Foreign Minister William
Hague and his Italian counterpart,
Franco Frattini. Are these views
correct?
There is little doubt that a no-fly
zone would reduce the numbers of
civilian casualties, especially in
large towns and cities where
aerial attacks are at their most
deadly. A no-fly zone would also
limit the government's ability to
supply its forces and to fly in
mercenaries. But it would not
necessarily stop these flows,
which could be effectuated by
ground routes. The same is true of
the arms embargo recently placed
on the Gadhafi government, as
many of Libya's neighbors lack
the resources or institutional
capacity to enforce the embargo.
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guide, imposing a no-fly zone will
not necessarily help rebel forces
topple the regime. Though no-fly
zones in Bosnia and northern Iraq
successfully protected civilians
from aerial attacks, they did not
help Bosnia's Muslims and Croats
win the civil war or Iraq's Kurds
gain independence. Instead, in
both cases, the no-fly zones
forced the stronger side to
recalibrate its strategies.
In northern Iraq, Saddam
Hussein's government, knowing
that geopolitical forces would
prevent the Kurds from declaring
independence and recognizing
that the region's mountainous
geography favored Kurdish
rebels, decided to accept the de
facto autonomy of the region. In
Bosnia, the no-fly zone had little
effect. Bosnian Serbs used their
advantage in heavy weaponry to
terrorize Bosnia's Muslims and
Croats. They also continued their
ethnic cleansing tactics until the
United States and its European
allies decided to directly
challenge Bosnian Serb
aggression. As part of the Dayton
peace strategy, which included a
negotiated end to the conflict,
NATO fighter jets attacked
Bosnian Serb positions, while the
Croat military helped Bosnian
Muslim and Bosnian Croat forces
to reclaim half of Bosnia's
territory.
The no-fly zone in southern Iraq
serves as another reminder that
the imposition of such a regime
does not always help opposition
forces or its supporters. While
Saddam Hussein's military could
not use its fighter jets, the no-fly
zone did not restrict the use of
attack helicopters, and Iraqi
ground troops were free to quash
the organized opposition.
With these three historical case
studies in mind, the international
community must think hard about
what it hopes to achieve in Libya.
While it is possible that a no-fly
zone will reduce civilian
casualties there, it will not stop
them altogether. If the goal is to
force a stalemate between forces
loyal to Gadhafi and the Libyan
rebels in order to encourage peace
talks, then establishing a no-fly
zone makes strategic sense.
But if the objective is to oust
Gadhafi from power, then a no-fly
zone is not enough. That would
require, at minimum, the creation
of a coalition of the willing led by
either African and Arab countries
or Western forces, or a
combination of both. Such a
coalition would need to be willing
to destroy the Libyan
government's air defenses and arm
the Libyan opposition, while
providing air cover when
necessary. To be clear, this
strategy would escalate the
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conflict in the short term, foster
tensions between the U.N.
Security Council's permanent
members and even potentially
violate international law. It would,
however, all but guarantee an end
to Gadhafi's 41-year rule and put
the Libyan opposition on the road
to rebuilding the country and
establishing a new, democratic
government.
That would likely create other
potential challenges, as the U.S.
experience in Iraq amply
demonstrates. But in the absence
of a real examination and
discussion of our goals in Libya,
we risk responding to the situation
there with a policy that soothes
our consciences without serving
our interests.
Carlos L. Yordán is associate
professor of political science and
director of Middle East Studies at
Drew University.
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Libya is a perfect example of
where the world is now stuck:
America is very reticent to get
involved militarily, while China,
for the first time in its history,
engages in long-range military
operations to evacuate its
workforce there. Meanwhile, the
expanding civil war rages on, to
everyone's moral and economic
distress.
The point is not that America
must invade Libya pronto to keep
the world as we know it from
coming to an end. But if the
United States and the West sit by
while the Rest, risers that they are,
manage nothing more than pious
warnings about needlessly butting
in, then we all run the risk of
collectively making the post-
American, G-Zero, do-nothing
storyline a self-fulfilling
prophecy. While that alone won't
stop the world from spinning, if it
persists as a pattern, globalization
will slide down another path: one
of regionalism, spheres of
influence and neocolonial burdens
that are intuitively hoarded by
great powers grown increasingly
suspicious of one another.
And if you know your history,
that should make you nervous.
The way forward for America is
clear enough: stop clinging to
China as the preferred military
"near peer" and stop fantasizing,
as our new National Military
Strategy does, that East Asia now
stands as the global system's
primary source of threat. Because
when we engage in such strategic
misdirection, we put at risk the
very East-West network bonds
that now serve as globalization's
primary source of stability, while
discouraging the growing East-
South network bonds that fuel
globalization's continued advance.
If I were to critique Obama's lack
of strategic coherence, it would be
for buying into, and perpetuating,
the post-American zeitgeist,
instead of building the great-
power bonds commensurate with
this era's structural change.
Because our current strategic
drift, in combination with our
military retrenchment and none-
too-subtle demonization of our
inevitable partner, China, is
actually accelerating the very
decline we increasingly dread.
Thomas P.M. Barnett is chief
analyst at Wikistrat and a
contributing editor for Esquire
magazine. His latest book is "
Great Powers: America and the
World After Bush" (2009). His
weekly WPR column, The New
Rules, appears every Monday.
Reach him and his blog at
thomaspmbarnett.com.
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More DroidDream Details Emerge: It was Building a Mobile

Botnet
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) purpose? This appears to still be identity theft - although that could threats like this are kept out of the
Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:55:53 AM somewhat of a mystery. Much of have come later - it was to set up Market in the future, a company
the code appeared to be a system for downloading and spokesperson would not go on
New details have emerged incomplete - a work in progress installing additional applications record to provide details.
regarding the purpose behind the where some of its most dangerous on the end users' phone without However, people with knowledge
DroidDream malware that was aspects were still yet to be their knowledge. DroidDream was of Google's plans say that the
found in over 50 applications in i m p l e m e n t e d . I n s t e a d , t h e laying the groundwork for a company will not take the
the Android Market last week. malware was configured to run comprehensive system of dramatic step of pre-screening
After a brief investigation, Google overnight - from the hours of 11 remotely-controlled Android applications for security issues
opted to use its "remote kill PM to 8 AM - when the phone's phones. A mobile botnet. prior to their inclusion in the
switch" this weekend to wipe the owner was probably sleeping and Zombie Androids. official Android Market. There
vicious apps off end users' mobile wouldn't notice strange behaviors DroidDream would have created will be no "curation" of apps, a la
phones. Google also promised on the phone, says Lookout. a mobile botnet similar to those Apple. The Android Market will
that going forward, it was "adding During this time, the malware UserID. This is "device-specific" we have today in the PC world. continue to be the open app store
a number of measures to help author(s) could send down new information, explains Google. Not There, infected, virus-laden it is today, where Google only
prevent malicious applications code and new instructions and ask personal info. Windows PCs are now controlled steps in after issues occur, not
using similar exploits from being the phone to do their bidding. What's really interesting is that by remote servers for purposes prior.
distributed through the Android Upon installation, DroidDream DroidDream had a commands that include everything from These plans seem to fit with what
Market" in the future. would initially root the phone, as section that dealt with details sending spam emails to launching Google says it's working on:
B u t h o w d a n g e r o u s w a s mentioned above, and install a relating to the Android Market: distributed denial of service closing security holes (aka
DroidDream, after all? What was second app that prevented its ratings, comments, assetIDs and attacks on remote targets. For "working with our partners to
it up to? And was it able to inflect removal. It then sent select i n s t a l l s t a t e s , s p e c i f i c a l l y . example, the attacks the online provide the fix for the underlying
any real damage to end users' information about the phone to a Although incomplete, Lookout group Anonymous launched security issues.") But Google can't
devices before it was removed? remote server, the "command and says it's possible the towards businesses and lock down Android completely,
Sponsor control server," which tells the author(s) intended to listen to organizations severing ties with nor does it want to. That leaves
According to Lookout, a security malware what actions to perform. Android Market downloads and Wikileaks were botnet-driven. A room for more mobile malware
firm which makes an anti- The details it collected, while possibly to trigger downloads and botnet's creator (the bot herder) creations to make their way to
malware application for Android disturbing of course, were not c o m m e n t s o n d o w n l o a d e d can rent out his zombie machines users' phones in the future. For
phones, DroidDream was the first really that bad in the grand applications. to others for financial gain. It can end users, it means the burden is
piece of malware to use an exploit scheme of things. It did not Those instructions could have be a lucrative business, in fact. It's on them to be vigilant with app
that gave it root permissions over attempt to determine a user's been there to boost the ratings of not surprising that someone would installations and security. And for
the device. In layman's terms, that password, phone number or its own malware-infected apps on attempt to build a botnet using Android developers, the challenge
means that the malware had sensitive financial information, it the Market and to leave comments mobile phones, given their will not only be getting their app
complete administrative control appears. It didn't steal your files that would give them an air of g r o w i n g m a r k e t s h a r e a n d discovered from a group of
over the phone. Or in iPhone or photos. It didn't login into your legitimacy. That, in turn, would capabilities. This won't be the last hundreds of thousands of others,
terms, it would be like you Gmail account and send out spam have encouraged more downloads time we see such malware, either, but establishing an app is safe and
downloaded an app that jailbroke (well...yet). Lookout says that of the apps in question. Mobile we can guarantee. This is only the trustworthy, too. Discuss
y o u r p h o n e w i t h o u t y o u r DroidDream gathered only the B o t n e t C r e a t i o n w a s beginning. What's Google Doing?
knowledge. Evil Androids Wake f o l l o w i n g i n f o : P r o d u c t I D , D r o i d D r e a m ' s E n d G o a l When asked what, specifically,
at Night, Do Server's Bidding Partner, IMSI, IMEI, Model and But at the end of the day, Google was doing to make good
But what was the malware's SDK value, language, country and DroidDream's goal was not on its promise to make sure
Newstablet Edition Technology/ 27

JVC Everio GS-TD1 Full HD 3D camcorder on sale now

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:40:23 AM

JVC‘s Everio GS-TD1 – the first

Full HD 3D consumer camcorder
– has finally gone on sale, having
made its official debut back at
CES 2011 in January. Priced at
$1,699.95, the GS-TD1 pairs
two 3.32 megapixel CMOS
sensors with an F1.2 JVC 3D
Twin HD GT lens and a 3.5-inch
glasses-free 3D preview display,
along with 64GB of integrated
storage.
There’s also an SDXC memory
card slot. JVC offers three
different recording modes: the
new “LR Independent” format
(MP4 MVC) for Full HD; “Side-
by-Side” format (960 x 1080 X 2)
for AVCHD 3D recording; and
2D AVCHD shooting for regular
use. There’s support for YouTube
3D as well.
An SDXC card slot, 3D optical
5x zoom, Optical Axis Automatic
Stabilization System
and Automatic Parallax
Adjustment round out the main
specs. As we discovered back at
CES, the GS-TD1 packs an
impressive amount of tech into a
reasonably small package; find
more in our hands-on report here.
Press Release: consumer market that offers 3D What’s more, the camcorder can observed Dave Owen, Vice HD 3D recording and several
JVC First To Offer Full HD 3D video recording in Full High shoot 3D video that can be burned President, Consumer Video, JVC options for archiving and playing
Consumer Camcorder Definition. The new JVC GS- to a Blu-ray disc or DVD-R for U.S.A. “But what could be better back their 3D footage.”
New GS-TD1 3D camcorder now TD1 uses two camera lenses and 3D playback on a compatible Blu- than creating your own home The JVC GS-TD1 features a pair
available two imaging sensors – one for ray player. videos in 3D? We think there will of 3.32 megapixel CMOS sensors
WAYNE, NJ, March 7, 2011 each lens – to capture three- “With more commercially- be plenty of 3D TV buyers eager and a new JVC-developed high-
JVC today announced the dimensional images in much same produced 3D content coming to do just that. Furthermore, we speed imaging engine that
availability of a new 3D consumer way that human eyes work. along this year, sales of 3D TVs think they’ll appreciate that our
camcorder, the first on the JVC page 31
3D video shot using the GS-TD1. are expected to be strong,” new camcorder offers both Full
28 Technology/
Skype adds adverts this week to Windows app
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:41:59 AM
Skype has announced it will
begin showing adverts as part of
the Skype for Windows home tab
later this week, the first time
advertising has been promoted
within the app. The US, UK and
Germany will be the first markets
covered, while Groupon, Nokia,
Universal Pictures and Visa have
all signed up to show their wares
on a daily basis.
Happily there’ll be a “hide ad”
button for users fed up of seeing
each day’s deal, along with – as
you’d expect from a VoIP
company – a Click & Call button
so that they’ll be able to get in
touch straight away. Meanwhile a
share button will hook into
Facebook and Twitter.
The decision is likely to frustrate
many users of Skype, though with
the company offering most of its
services free, it’s arguably a
surprise that it’s taken this long
for adverts to infiltrate. Earlier
this year Skype 5.0 dropped its
beta label and began charging for
group video calls.
Press Release:
Skype launches new advertising
opportunity for the world’s
premier brands
Groupon, Nokia, Universal
Pictures, and Visa among first
brands to advertise on Skype ·
Skype establishes advertising
sales partnerships in US, UK and
Germany to sell advertising to
premier brands
LUXEMBOURG, 7 March 2011
– Skype today announced the
launch of advertising in Skype
software, which will appear in the
Home tab of Skype for Windows
starting this week. This move
represents the first time that
advertising will appear in Skype,
giving brands a unique
opportunity to be part of the
Skype experience, which has
enabled millions of people around
the world to do things together
when they’re apart through voice
and video calling, instant
messaging, conferencing, and
more.
Skype has partnered with leading
advertising companies: Meebo in
the US, Ad2One in the UK, and
Ströer Interactive in Germany to
sell advertising for Skype in each
of their respective markets.
With 145 million average
monthly connected users for the
fourth quarter of 2010 and 29
million concurrent users at peak
times, Skype’s reach and engaged
user base makes it an attractive
platform for brands to market
their products. The first
advertisers to sign up with Skype
include: Groupon, Nokia,
Universal Pictures, and Visa.
“We’re really pleased by the
initial response among
advertisers. We believe
advertising on Skype helps fill a
creative gap by giving brands a
platform that has broad reach and
global engagement, while also
supporting large-format, rich and
interactive ads,” said Doug
Bewsher, Chief Marketing Office
for Skype.
Skype “Home” provides a
sponsored large masthead space at
650 × 170 pixels expandable to
650 × 340 pixels for advertisers to
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display ads that can include audio
or video. Since the ads are on
Skype, advertisers can add a Click
& Call button in the ad as another
call to action. In addition, it
allows people to share the ad to
their Facebook or Twitter
accounts, and with one-click, ads
can also be closed with the Close
Ad button.
“The user experience on Skype is
always job number one. So, we’ve
spent a lot of time working
through the best way to show
advertising in the Skype
environment. We believe our
daily sponsorship ad from one
brand per day is valuable for
premier advertisers, but doesn’t
detract from the experience for
our users,” said Bewsher. “We are
just taking our first steps in this
space and we expect to test and
learn a lot as we move forward.”
“Many people log into Skype as
part of their daily routine, just like
they check Groupon,” said Rob
Solomon, president and COO of
Groupon. “We look forward to
leveraging Skype’s new display
advertising to connect Groupon to
an even larger captive audience.”
“Skype is known for great value
with its low-cost calls to mobiles
and landline phones, and free
Skype-to-Skype voice and video
calls. We believe that advertising,
done in the right way, will help us
continue to add more value into
the Skype experience as a whole,”
said Bewsher.
Skype’s advertising sales partners
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Missing in green tech: Long attention span continued from page 28

in the US, UK, and Germany will

(CNET News.com) of tax credits for renewable There was a session on strategic transporting fuels to its bases and help present advertisers with the
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:48:53 AM energy projects was extended in materials and energy, where a generally reduce oil imports. opportunity to market on Skype.
the final moments of the last panel of experts discussed the Because military forces pay high “We’re excited to be partnering
Oil has climbed over $100 a Congress, but only for one year. importance of rare-earth elements energy costs, both in dollar terms with Meebo, Ad2One, and Ströer
barrel and there's historical unrest In a few months, that will create and other "energy-critical" and because of security Interactive. They give us great
in oil-producing countries of the uncertainty for financiers just as it materials. The supply of these vulnerabilities, the DOD is seen sales teams, reach and meaningful
Middle East. Yet, at times it's hard did last year. materials, used in hybrid cars, as potential customer for many advertiser relationships, right
to tell how strong the country's I stumbled into another instance efficient lighting, and defense green technologies. The Navy has from day one,” said Andy Sims,
commitment to clean-energy of short-term thinking at the MIT systems, isn't an acute problem ambitious program to cut fossil director of advertising for Skype.
technologies is. Energy Conference on Saturday today. But mining new sources fuel in half by 2020. “All three partners are leading
A vivid example is the Advanced while speaking with a venture and technology research for Panelist agreed it's unlikely that providers of advertising services,
Research Projects Agency-Energy capitalist. When I asked him what alternatives and cleaner extraction the U.S. in the short term will not have deep relationships with top
(ARPA-E), which was funded two his mood was regarding clean- methods typically takes five to 15 have legislation to limit carbon advertisers and agencies in their
years ago to research potential tech investing, he sighed and said years, panelists said. emissions to encourage markets, and have experience
breakthrough energy technologies investing in energy and materials The U.S. was the primary global development of low-carbon selling high-impact brand
and determine their commercial can be a tough sell within his supplier of rare earth elements in energy sources. But former CIA advertising.”
potential. firm. the 1970s but now the world's head James Woolsey argued that For more advertiser information,
The U.S. prides itself on its Imagine the scene: one investor focus has turned to China, which the national defense reasons for go to www.skype.com/go/
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Google Music Sync Working on Rooted Android Beat That! Google

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Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) users shared additional details demonstrated at Google's I/O
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:12:28 AM with each other over the past few Developer conference in 2010. £37.7M
days, it has become clear that this This was the conference where Steve O'Hear (TechCrunch)
U s e r s o v e r o n t h e X D A - hack legitimately works on some Google first mentioned its plans
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:21:35 AM
Developers forum have managed users' rooted phones. to offer music streaming to
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working on their rooted Android Android phone is a specific in May 2010. In the current the financial product comparison
phones, even though the service process that allows a user to take version of Honeycomb (Android site BeatThatQuote.com for
has not officially launched. This complete control over their 3.0), the music player's syncing £37.7m. The news was first outed
was accomplished by removing device, with full administrative capability has been removed. by the blog money.co.uk but has
the stock music app that came powers. Once rooted, the user can This hack is by no means perfect since been made official. Writing
with their Android phone and make further customizations to - there are issues with the app on the UK company's site,
installing a different version the device, offload stock apps and force closing (erroring out), songs
them anywhere you have an only showing up in landscape BeatThatQuote Managing
i n s t e a d - t h e o n e f o u n d i n other non-movable apps over to
Internet connection. This is mode, long sync times, no Director, John Paleomylites, says
Honeycomb (Android 3.0), the their external storage card to free
similar to how other popular progress bar, and a host of other that the acquisition offers the
tablet-optimized implementation up more room on the phone,
streaming music applications like issues. But it is unofficial, after opportunity to "develop new and
of the Android mobile operating i n s t a l l c u s t o m A n d r o i d
Rdio, MOG, Spotify, mSpot, all. innovative options for personal
system. ROMs(modified versions of the
Rhapsody, Audiogalaxy and finance in the UK" by making use
After installation, the sync A n d r o i d O S w i t h d i f f e r e n t Those tempted to root their
others work, except that here, phones in the hopes of testing this of Google's engineering muscle.
process began and, according to interfaces and features), and much
Google is storing the music, not themselves should probably hold Of course, like almost any Google
the first user to notice this more.
another company. (Presumably, off, unless experienced with this purchase these days, the deal
phenomenon, the phone was now The XDA-Developers forum is a
unless there's a unknown process - it's not for the could raise the eyebrows of
syncing music, too. His collection popular online home to the
partnership in effect.) regulators, especially in regards to
of music synced overnight, he rooting community and is a technically challenged. In the
However, the XDA users don't meantime, plenty of applications, how it places the comparison
said. By morning, an option to treasure trove of information
know where exactly the music is like those mentioned above, are site's content in its search index.
"Stream Music" became available about hacks, customizations,
being synced to, leading one to available now and are much easier With that in mind, perhaps,
from within the music player applications and other tricks and
joke"right to RIAA!" Paleomylites talks up the
application. tips. Many Details Still Unknown to use.
Also, to be clear, the music possibility to "offer more
Sponsor In the thread regarding the Image credit: lead -
player is not the same one that is L i f e o f A n d r o i d ; p l a y e r transparency and better pricing
Google Music Sync Already Google music sync feature, it
actually shipping in Android screenshots, forum user RazorHail information than existing online
Works appears that after syncing the
Honeycomb tablets now (like the Discuss offerings."
We've been following the thread music to the "cloud" (the cloud in
on the XDA forums ever since the this case being Google's servers), Motorola Xoom), explains forum
blog Pocketnow made mention of you can remove the music files member otto888, but is a slightly
it late last week. As the forum from the device and still stream older version that was

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JVC
continued from page 27
processes the two Full HD images
– left and right images at 1920 x
1080i resolution. Three shooting
modes are offered, a key feature
that provides several options for
HD resolution and archiving of
3D footage. These three shooting
modes are: a new “LR
Independent” format (MP4 MVC)
that records in Full HD, the
widely used “Side-by-Side”
format (960 x 1080 X 2) for
AVCHD 3D recording, and 2D
AVCHD shooting.
The camcorder uses a F1.2 JVC
3D Twin HD GT Lens that sets a
new standard in high-resolution
lenses, with extra-low-dispersion
glass for crisp, high-contrast
images, as well as multiple
aspherical lenses for fine image
reproduction. The combination of
the fast F1.2 lens and the back-
illuminated CMOS sensors
provides the GS-TD1 with
outstanding low light
performance. The GS-TD1 also
features round iris diaphragms
that enable beautiful bokeh effect
(background blurring) shooting of
video and stills alike.
Additional highlights include
64GB of built-in flash memory,
SDXC card slot, 3D optical 5x
Google tightens Android security after remote-killing malicious apps
Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:16:00 AM
Google has vowed to improve
security measures on the Android
Marketplace after a wave of
zoom, Optical Axis Automatic
Stabilization System for disparity
control to give depth to 3D
images, JVC’s BIPHONIC
technology for dynamic 3D sound
and Automatic Parallax
Adjustment to optimize the 3D-
video comfort zone.
The GS-TD1 operates like other
consumer JVC camcorders, with
easy-to-use, intuitive controls. A
3.5” 3D touch panel LCD monitor
displays 3D images without any
need for 3D glasses, making it
easy to check 3D images while
shooting and watch 3D playback
in the field.
The GS-TD1 comes with new
Everio MediaBrowser 3D
software (for Windows®) for full
management, editing and sharing
of content. In addition to full-
fledged video and still image
editing, files can be uploaded
effortlessly to social media sites
such as YouTube™ or Facebook,
and the software allows 3D video
to be shared on YouTube.
For archiving and playing back
3D recordings, there are several
options depending on the shooting
mode used.
· Full HD 3D video, shot
using the MP4 MVC mode, can
malicious apps attacked upwards
of 250,000 phones.
Early last week, on 1 March,
Google became aware that about
20 popular and free apps on the Android Market were carrying
be archived to a computer hard
drive or Blu-ray disc drive. This
Full HD material can be played
back in 3D by running the footage
back through the camcorder.
· AVCHD 3D (Side-by-Side
mode) video can be burned to a
DVD-R disc and played back in
3D on any AVCHD-compatible
Blu-ray player – including non-
3D AVCHD-compatible Blu-ray
players – when the disc was
created with a PC or JVC Share
Station.
The JVC GZ-TD1 Full HD 3D
camcorder is available now for
$1,699.95.
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• JVC Everio X GZ-X900 goes
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on video & sample footage
• JVC GS-TD1 Full HD 3D
Camcorder hands-on
• JVC 4k2k consumer camcorder
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Terminally Geeky: use
automatic login more
securely
TJ Luoma (TUAW) name, and then enter your
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:00:00 AM password.
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Imagine if you rebooted your What if you could have the
computer, and it automatically security of the login screen with
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Lenovo reveals specs on ThinkPad

X220
(CNET News.com) as 320GB or an SSD with as
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:54:11 AM much as 160GB of storage space.
Rounding up the list of features
Though Lenovo's upcoming are three USB 2.0 ports and a
ThinkPad X220 ultraportable USB 3.0 port available with the i7
sports a powerful CPU and plenty processor, a 720p high-definition
of RAM, its potential battery life Webcam, and an Intel Wi-Fi/
may be the biggest lure. WiMax adapter. Lenovo also
Lenovo's ThinkPad X220
ultraportable(Credit: Lenovo)
The X220 isn't on sale just yet,
offers some of its usual features,
such as a fingerprint reader as
well both a trackpad and the
iPad 2 line has formed
but Lenovo is providing an in-
depth glimpse at its specs thanks
familiar red trackpoint.
Lenovo hasn't yet revealed when
to an online PDF. The details X220 sports some other powerful the X220 will make its way to
in Texas
Dave Caolo (TUAW) course, it's quite possible that, in
confirm that the notebook can run specs. Using Intel's latest and now consumers or what it'll cost, but
some zany scheme to turn a profit,
without AC power for up to 23 bug-free Sandy Bridge Second we've reached out to the company Submitted at 3/7/2011 1:00:00 PM
the tent manufacturer produced
hours on a single charge via a Generation architecture, Lenovo to see if it can share any further A tent has appeared outside a more than one grey-and-white
slim external battery pack. But offers a choice of an i7, i5, or i3 details. Texas Apple Store, believed to model of that size and shape.
even without that external battery, processor. The 12.5-inch high- This entry passed through the belong to the first person line for iPad 2 sales will differ from the
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Lenovo also says that a low switching, a feature that promises our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ At right is a shot of the tent on on Friday, you must first wait in
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Bing cooking up instant search, HTML5 features

(CNET News.com) because our editors and writers
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:55:25 AM receive hundreds of requests, we
cannot tell you when you may
Microsoft is preparing to make receive a response.
searching Bing an instantaneous Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in
affair. 2006 and now covers Microsoft.
According to blog Winrumors, Before that, Josh wrote about
which was tipped off to a preview everything from new Web start-
program Microsoft is running, the ups, to remote-controlled robots
company is planning to roll out a that watch your house.
special version of Bing for users This entry passed through the
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browsers. Those users will get a your content and you're reading it
few extra flourishes like instant on someone else's site, please read
results as they type queries, as our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
well as animations and transitions Explorer 9-related media event on to bring instant results to Bing, doing with the results to make that content-only/faq.php
between pages. the 14th. despite knocking the feature when part of the process take less time. Five Filters featured article:
This new version is said to be A Microsoft representative it was launched by rival Google Even so, instant results have Comment Is Free But Freedom Is
launching around the same time declined to comment. back in September of last year. In proven to be a success for Google, Slavery - An Exchange With The
as the final release of Internet The preview page for Bing at an interview with USA Today with the company saying last Guardian's Economics Editor.
Explorer 9, which Microsoft is Bing.com/peek spills the beans on shortly after Google Instant's week that just 2 percent of users
expected to announce at the South the new features, without letting launch, Bing director Stefan had opted out of using the feature.
by Southwest conference, which users access them just yet.(Credit: Weitz said that while the feature If you have a question or
kicks off on Friday. Microsoft is CNET) was "slick," Microsoft's mission comment for Josh Lowensohn,
holding an invite-only, Internet Microsoft has long been expected was to attack what users were you can submit it here. However,

T-Mobile HTC Doubleshot tipped for CTIA 2011

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:29:24 AM
A new HTC Android 2.3
Gingerbread smartphone has been
tipped to make its debut at CTIA
2011 early next month, on its way
to an eventual release with T-
Mobile USA. According to
TmoNews‘ source, the HTC
Doubleshot is a lock-in for the
phone show, though they’re not
able to share any details beyond set to make its official debut at • Man Down! Man Down!
the (code)name and the CTIA 2011 as well, and we’ll be SlashGear First Day at CTIA
expectation that the Doubleshot on hand at the show to bring back 2006 LA
will pack Gingerbread. all the details. • T-Mobile readying unlimited
From the name, however, we’re [ via Android Community; Image data plan
guessing HTC may be giving the credit Coffeegeek] • Video of BlackBerry Pearl at
Doubleshot a dual-core processor Relevant Entries on SlashGear CTIA 2006
or twin displays. It’s not the first • SlashGear goes to CTIA
dual-core rumor we’ve heard for Wireless 2007
the company; the HTC Pyramid Snapdragon chip. We’ve heard • Sprint readying EVO View
made headlines in early February, independently that the Pyramid is tablet, Nexus S 4G and EVO 3D
believed to tote a 1.2GHz for CTIA?
34 Technology/ Products/
Ustream 2.0 For iPhone Lets You Broadcast And
View Live Video, All In One App
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:38:12 AM
Want to watch Charlie Sheen’s
Sheen’s Corner on mobile? Aspire
to be Charlie Sheen? Well, just
like it did on Android back in
January, Ustream today has
combined both its Viewer and
Broadcaster app into one all-
encompassing and newly
redesigned iPhone app allowing
you to stream and watch live
video all from your iPhone.
Taking advantage of iPhone 4s
front facing camera, the Ustream
2.0 app allows you to easily log in
to your Ustream account and live
broadcast or record video with
one click, letting you share your
broadcast on Twitter and
Facebook as well as launch chat
or take a viewer yes/no poll.
While the app retains full
functionality in both 3G and Wifi,
it does need a strong network to
perform the heavy duty task of
livestreaming video (Ustream tells
me that the quality is better in the
latest version). Ustream 2.0 also
offers the option to record to your
device in case of poor signal for
broadcasters but will throw down
UFOs -- Ben the Over-Literal Dermestid Beetle Weighs In
Woot (Woot! - One Day, One
Deal)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:02:26 AM
This week, everyone's favorite
a “Please check your network
connection” message for people
who want to view video in less
than ideal connectivity settings.
The Viewer part of the app lets
you search for shows by Featured,
Category, and Ustream show
name. You can set up alerts on
your favorite content by hitting
the Remind Me button on the
content you’re interested in or by
joining Ustream Crowds and
Events (viewable under More >
Favorites). You can also check
offal-scavenging beetle explains
why we all believe in UFOs. It's
just space aliens he's skeptical
about. This video features art
from the following reckoned
out individual Ustreamer profiles
and share what content you’re
viewing both on Twitter and
Facebook.
While Justin.tv and others have
these functionalities in their
iPhone apps for awhile, Ustream
has been hitting it out of the park
with its ability to attract the kind
of content people want to view on
the go ( Chilean Miner rescue
anyone?). The service is just
about to hit 10 million users and
Charlie Sheen’s debacle on
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Interview: Street
artist Vhils on his
explosive murals
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:13:00 AM
Street artist Vhils has teamed up
with band Orelha Negra to shoot
a music video featuring the
creation of murals carved with
explosives.
The Portuguese artist, also known
as Alexandre Farto, is renowned
Saturday brought in over 1.6 f o r h i s m u r a l s , w h i c h h e
million views despite the show t r a d i t i o n a l l y c r e a t e s u s i n g
itself being less than impressive. stencils, chisels and drills --
Something tells me we ain’t seen cutting either directly into walls
nothing yet (I mean wait ’til or removing layers of advertising
Sheen finds out about the app). posters. For the music video for
You can get the app either by M.I.R.I.A.M., he first of all
updating the Viewer app if carved the images and faces that
already installed or by clicking were to be filmed into the walls
here. before filling in the indentations
CrunchBase Information Ustream with plaster and hiding the pre-
I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y carved murals. The plaster was
CrunchBase laced with explosives so that
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Newstablet Edition
Hyperlocal Places Directory Fwix
Adds Social Data And Geotagging
To New Android And iOS Apps
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:50:50 AM
Fwix is rolling out new versions
of its iPhone and Android apps,
which adds social geotagging to
its hyperlocal places directory. As
we’ve reported last Fall, Fwix
originally launched as a
hyperlocal news aggregator but
has more recently been
transitioning to a hyperlocal
places directory, sort of a cross
between AOL’s Patch and Google
Places.
For neighborhoods, businesses
and points of interest, Fwix It
culls local data from 30,000 blogs
and news feeds; status updates
from Twitter, Foursquare,
Gowalla, Google Buzz, and
BrightKite; geo-tagged photos
from Flickr, Smugmug, and
Picassa; local deals from
Groupon, LivingSocial, and
MobileSpinach; events from
Eventbrite, Eventful, Zvents,
Stubhub, Ticketmaster, reviews
from Yelp, Citysearch,
OpenTable, Yahoo! Local, and
Zagat; and government data from
SpotCrime, FixMyStreet, and
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SeeClickFix.
Fwix is launching new iPhone
and Android apps that include the
new places functionality to give
users contextual information
around businesses and
neighborhoods. So Fwix’s
technology will aggregate all the
relevant social information around
you can look for information
around destination and places on
the fly. Fwix says it will be
geotagging check-ins, geotagged
parse this page for content.
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Tweets, reviews, events and local
news and blog posts.
This is all part of Fwix’s
evolution as a local data platform
that is organizing the world’s
information by location. A
number of media publishers
building on top of the company’s
API including NBC, AT&T
Christian World
Interactive, New York Times
Company, Viacom (BET.com), Adoption
and others. By indexing the Web noreply@blogger.com (Ad a forever family. Christian World
by location, Fwix is operating in 7 ServeRSS) (AdServRSS Feed) Adoption currently offers
countries; 61,000 cities; and adoption programs in Bulgaria,
defined down to 87,000 Christian World Adoption is one China, Ethiopia, Guatemala,
neighborhoods in the US alone. of the largest international Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
Fwix says that its content and adoption agencies in the United and Ukraine. Explore our website
platform reaches more than 30 States. Since 1991, Christian to learn more about international
million uniques per month. World Adoption has placed adoption. Then, when you’re
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This Year, Do Your Taxes On The iPad With TurboTax

Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch) will recognize the interface. It you can move your current year
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:56:41 AM takes you through the same taxes over from the desktop
guided questions the online and version. So you can start on your
L a s t n i g h t , a f t e r m u c h desktop versions do, asks you computer and type in the bulk of
procrastination, I started my about your financial situation, and the data, and then move over to
taxes—on my couch with a movie keeps a tally of your refund up top the iPad and vice versa.
playing on the TV, using only my (or, gulp, taxes you still owe). Next year, you should be able to
iPad. I was testing out an early The app works in both landscape import data from previous years.
build of TurboTax, which is now and portrait mode, and knows And who knows, with the new
available for the iPad(in addition when to pop up a number keypad cameras in the iPad 2, maybe you
t o t h e o n l i n e a n d d e s k t o p or the full keyboard. will be able to simply take a
versions). I got through the bulk Just like the desktop version, the picture of all your tax forms like
of my taxes by the time the movie entire app resides on your iPad, you can with SnapTax for the
was over. with no need to connect to the TurboTax (starting at $29.99) thought entering all my personal iPhone(which only works with W-
Taxes are never fun, even on the Internet until you file. It is free to The one big drawback of the app and W-2 data on the iPad would 2s for now, but that’s a start).
iPad. But the new TurboTax iPad download and do your entire taxes for existing TurboTax users is that be a pain, but it really didn’t take CrunchBase Information Intuit
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iSound DIY Apple speakers worthy of Jony Ive

Chris Davies (SlashGear) design for his own DIY creations. • JBL Creature III speakers are
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:13:54 AM The original plan had been to Apple exclusive but work with
integrate a subwoofer into the PCs too
Apple doesn’t offer standalone desk, complete with box paths and • CES 2007 Cherry Picks: iSound
desktop speakers, but if they did a cavity at the back for a USB Time Travel
y o u c a n b e t t h e y ’ d l o o k hub, storage and a power supply. • Apple Speakers released
something like this. Brett wanted However, that’s been pushed back • Chill Pill portable speakers
a 2.1 speaker system to match his to phase two, and for now there’s released
27-inch LED Cinema Display, a regular sub lurking under the • Apple announces MacBook Air
and finding nothing he approved table. exactly in keeping with the grey worse than borrow the design with 128GB SSD option
of commercially, turned to a CNC A Dayton Audio amp powers the and black of the general color themselves.
machine, hand-built crossovers whole system, and the gold finish scheme – do a great job catching [ via Hack a Day]
and some beautifully minimalist to the speaker cones – while not the eye. Apple could do a lot Relevant Entries on SlashGear

Clothing Company Caricatures - Jonny Wan Creates Unique

Portraits That Combine a Variety of Styles (TrendHunter.com)
(TREND HUNTER - The Latest ( TrendHunter.com) Illustrator characters he has created himself. cultures and Victorian aesthetics...
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drawn portraits that feature combine inspiration from ancient
Newstablet Edition Policy/ 37

Romney Can't Withstand Obama's Kiss of Death

(AEI.Org: Articles) The facts suggest he has a steep overridden by the legislature. by taxpayer money through the pushed it, recognizing early on
Submitted at 3/6/2011 11:00:00 PM path ahead of him. Romney subsequently proclaimed state's Medicaid and that such complex legislation
Romney's 2006 remake of health that even with a legislature that Commonwealth Care programs, would have to be revised after its
March 7 (Bloomberg) -- The care in Massachusetts represented was 85 percent Democratic, he according to figures compiled by effects became clear.
2012 presidential campaign is an attempt to provide universal still got 95 percent of what he the Commonwealth Health "Will it work? I'm optimistic, but
finally stirring to life, with would- health coverage without a full wanted. Insurance Connector Authority. time will tell," Romney wrote in a
be Republican candidates Haley government takeover of the Romney has insisted that the Longer Waits 2006 Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Barbour and Mike Huckabee industry. Its central feature is an Massachusetts plan is "entirely Another troubling repercussion of "Legislative adjustments will
musing about whether Mitt individual mandate, requiring all different" from Obama's. A the new program has been its surely be needed along the way."
Romney should be disqualified by citizens to purchase health comparison of the two plans effect on the quality of medical I suspect the hyper-competent
s i m i l a r i t i e s b e t w e e n insurance if they can afford it. uncovers key similarities. care. The average wait time for Romney would have fixed
Massachusetts' Romneycare and Those who don't face steep fines. Legal Lynchpin new patients to see a primary-care problems as they emerged if he
Obamacare. Sound familiar? Both plans impose government- physician has risen to 53 days, hadn't stepped down after one
As if on cue, President Barack The rationale for the mandate designed purchasing exchanges according to the Massachusetts term at the start of 2007.
Obama defended his health- care was that it would end the free- that augment government control Medical Society, which represents Regardless, the right fixes haven't
overhaul in remarks to the nation's rider problem posed by uninsured of health care and include the doctors. That has led to increased been enacted, and the
governors by associating it with people relying on emergency care individual mandate, which has emergency-room visits. Massachusetts overhaul is looking
Romney's, an embrace the former (which by federal law must be become the lynchpin of In addition, insurance premiums like an unmitigated disaster.
Massachusetts governor surely provided) in lieu of health Republican legal challenges to have increased, suggesting that The Massachusetts experience
could do without. coverage. Obamacare. curing the free-rider problem shows us how bad it would be for
H o w A m e r i c a n s p e r c e i v e Connecting the Uninsured By contrast, the differences on brought no net cost savings. This the U.S. if Congress doesn't repeal
Romney's health legislation is The plan established subsidized which Romney hangs his is likely because the previously Obamacare. When it does go
shaping up to be an important health coverage through a so- presidential viability strike me as uninsured are seeking care much down, Romney will indirectly be
influence on whether he sinks or called connector, for people who few and relatively minor. They more often now that their responsible. Being the first to
swims in his expected second bid don't make enough to purchase include the fact that the 70-page insurance can foot the bill. drive off a cliff, however, hardly
f o r t h e p r e s i d e n c y . S i n c e insurance but are not eligible for Massachusetts bill, unlike its Romney often emphasizes that qualifies one for the White House.
Republican primary voters will be Medicaid. Because the newly much lengthier federal the biggest difference between his Kevin Hassett is the Director of
driven by a desire to repeal insured could then afford to see counterpart, didn't raise taxes on reform and Obama's is that his Economic-Policy Studies at AEI.
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38 Policy/ Economy/ Newstablet Edition

The Unhappy Paradox of Santa- Responding to the

Statism Recession: The Challenge for
(AEI.Org: Articles) impossible when what passes for
governing philosophy is little
trying to do more things than it
can do well, things that should be
Unemployment Insurance
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We have now seen President declaring that government should This article is available in full by market is in poor health, a have a direct effect on the 35
Obama's budget, which he says be judged on whether or not "it subscription to the Wall Street condition that is not likely to states that have a UI tax base less
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The Selloff Gets Worse, As Copper Plunges, And The White

House Discusses Arming The Rebels
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:07:35 PM
The selloff is getting worse.
Copper is getting hammered. It's option is that it could arm Mideast Join the conversation about this
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Treasuries are rallying. do so.
It screams deflation. And The White House says an The NASDAQ is off over 2%.
Newstablet Edition Economy/ 39

The Oil Situation Is Only Going To Get Worse As This

Becomes A Sunni-Shiite Problem
David Kotok (Money Game) that is beyond this short missive. achieved a total return of 9.59%
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:00:00 PM But we must note that Iran is now vs. SPY of 1.91% (January 27-
the dominant sponsor of Shiite March 4 closing prices). Extract
“… there’s so much unrest that Islam and Saudi Arabia is the energy, and the rest of the US
one can actually sense or imagine k e e p e r o f S u n n i t r a d i t i o n . stock market components have
unknown nano-particles of rage Readers and serious investors are been flat or down. We expect
colliding in mid-air...” (Source: a encouraged to study this schism. these trends to continue; US
private person who screens Think about it as you think about stocks have stopped discounting
Middle East media for me and Catholics vs. Protestants or the robust economic growth. There
w i t h w h o m I c o r r e s p o n d War of the Roses. Put that type is a lot of history demonstrating
frequently) of historical enmity into an the coincidence of recession and
“It ain’t over till its over.” –Yogi Islamic setting. No way is this an oil price spike.
Berra over. Cumberland is at maximum
We have no empathy for those Stratfor put the Bahrain situation overweight in energy ETFs. We
who bought into the “head fake” in this context. “There are continue to maintain a cash
rally last week and sold their negotiations under way between reserve. We believe the US stock
e n e r g y p o s i t i o n s b e c a u s e the Shiite-dominated opposition market will provide better
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez was and the Sunni royal family… If redeployment opportunities for
their peace broker. One doesn’t there is to be a negotiated that cash.
make a peace until at least one of settlement, then the royal family,
truer world price. The US American citizens’ incomes and We are also overweight the
the antagonists has reached the the al-Khalifas, will have to shed
s t a n d a r d i s W e s t T e x a s sends it abroad to mostly despotic media ETF, whose symbol is
point of exhaustion. And, usually, some powers, which means that
Intermediate (WTI. It is trading regimes. Results: GDP growth IGN. Ned Davis databases
the peacemaker needs credibility. t h e S h i a a r e l i k e l y t o b e
at a discount to Brent. It normally will be slower, headline inflation s t r o n g l y a r g u e , “ M e d i a ,
Chavez? A p e a c e m a k e r ? empowered. If that happens, that
trades at a 5% premium. The will be higher, housing prices will advertising, broadcasting, Cable
Really? This turmoil hasn’t energizes Shia in Kuwait… And
discount has widened to about stay weak longer, and the US TV and movies & entertainment
peaked yet. then, of course, Saudi Arabia is 15% or nearly $15 dollars per employment recovery will be sub-industries, stand out as sector
The contagion in the Middle next.” outperformers when the oil prices
barrel. This is more than two diminished.
East and North Africa (MENA) Let’s get to oil prices, financial
standard deviations from average. Financial markets reveal the start to spike.” Note that IGN
continues to grow. In addition, markets and, lastly, to monetary
(Thanks to Strategas for data.) energy upward trend. XLE is the has also outperformed SPY
the spread to Sub-Saharan Africa policy in Europe vs. the United
US dependency on imported oil energy “spider” component of the consistently during the last 6
lies ahead, as the media images of States.
reveals the multi-decade failure of S&P 500 index. It is the only months. Our US portfolio weight
social network-induced protest Oil prices are headed higher and
our nation’s energy policy. We sector in the S&P 500 that has is 3%, which is about as high as
encourage copycats in those maybe much higher as inventory
will now pay that price in higher consistently outperformed the we would take a small sub-
countries. We are now tracking cushions diminish and as markets
gasoline, diesel, and other energy index in the last 6 months. industry like this.
the 20 MENA countries as well recognize the quality differences
-related costs. Every dollar a Energy was in this uptrend due to Let’s move on.
as others like Cameroon and in crude oil. Sweet Libyan crude
barrel translates into about 2.5 emerging-market economic Monetary policy and interest rate
Nigeria. cannot be replaced by Saudi crude cents per gallon of gasoline. recoveries and well before the outlooks are diverging between
One needs to put this MENA on a barrel-by-barrel basis. As
Every penny in the gas price MENA events exploded in the the US Federal Reserve and the
contagion into the millennium old Ed Yardeni wrote, “Saudi crude is Eurozone’s European Central
translates into about $1.5 billion news.
perspective of the Shia-Sunni cruder.”
in a national annual sales tax that Furthermore, since Egyptian
schism in Islam. Discussion of Brent crude is reflective of a OIL page 42
extracts part of 305 million event news hit the TV, XLE has
40 Economy/
Gallup Survey Shows Unemployment Rate at 10.3% and
Rising, BLS Says 8.9% and Falling
noreply@blogger.com (Michael worsened considerably in
Shedlock) (Mish's Global February, increasing to 9.6% of
Economic Trend Analysis) the workforce from 9.1% at the
Submitted at 3/7/2011 2:18:00 AM end of January. A larger
A Gallup survey says the percentage of the U.S. workforce
unemployment rate in the US is is working part time and wanting
10.3% and rising. Meanwhile, the full-time work now than was the
B L S s a y s i t ' s 8 . 9 % . T h e case a year ago (9.3%).
comparison is not precise because Part-Time Workers Wanting Full
Gallup does not seasonally adjust -Time Jobs
but the BLS does. Underemployment Surges in
H o w e v e r , o n a n e q u a l February
comparison basis, Gallup has the Underemployment, a measure
unemployment rate where it was a that combines part-time workers
year ago but the BLS shows a wanting full-time work with those
drop of .5%. who are unemployed, surged in
For BLS details please see BLS February to 19.9%. This resulted
Jobs Report: Nonfarm Payroll from the combination of a sharp
+192,000, Unemployment Rate 0.5-point increase since the end of
8.9%; Reflections on the Jobs J a n u a r y i n t h e p e r c e n t a g e
Report. unemployed and a 0.5-point
Now let's take a look at the most i n c r e a s e i n t h e p e r c e n t a g e
recent Gallup survey. working part time but wanting full
G a l l u p F i n d s U . S . -time work. Underemployment is
Unemployment Hitting 10.3% in now higher than it was at this
February point a year ago (19.7%).
Inquiring minds note Gallup Underemployment
Finds U.S. Unemployment Hitting This deterioration in the jobs
10.3% in February situation combined with surging
Unemployment, as measured by gas prices, budget battles at the
G a l l u p w i t h o u t s e a s o n a l federal and state level, and
adjustment, hit 10.3% in February declines on Wall Street tend to
-- up from 9.8% at the end of explain the recent plunge Gallup
January. The U.S. unemployment recorded in consumer confidence.
rate is now essentially the same as T h e y a l s o a l i g n w i t h t h e
the 10.4% at the end of February continued"new normal" spending
2010. patterns of early 2011. Although
U n e m p l o y m e n t R a t e N o t Gallup's Job Creation Index has
Seasonally Adjusted improved over the past year and
The percentage of part-time showed modest improvement in
workers who want full-time work February, the improvement has
Newstablet Edition
Together, the picture just does
not add up to the 200,000+ jobs a
month many economists and
market cheerleaders expect.
Risks Skewed to the Downside
The Gallup survey reflects what I
suggested would happen.
Improvements last month have
given way to a relapse this month
(it just has not shown up in the
BLS reports).
not been significant enough to I still see no driver for job Moreover, critical budget issues
positively a f f e c t growth, and that is just what affect states, and Congress is
u n d e r e m p l o y m e n t a n d G a l l u p s a y s . M o r e o v e r , I poised to cut spending. Together
unemployment. discussed this setup not as an with rising oil prices on a supply
Warren Buffet said Wednesday afterthought, but in advance. shock, possible European interest
o n C N B C t h a t t h e U . S . Adding to that discussion, just rate hikes, a cutoff in Quantitative
unemployment rate should be in y e s t e r d a y I n o t e d B i g - B o x Easing, forced cutbacks in China
the low 7% range by late 2012. If R e t a i l e r s R e c o n s i d e r S i z e ; due to overheating, and a stock
that is going to be the case, the Saturation, Online Sales Affect market that is priced well beyond
job creation environment must Store Expansion Plans and Hiring perfection, the best one can say is
change dramatically from what it Needs that risks are hugely skewed to the
i s t o d a y . E x p l a i n i n g t h e ... downside, both for the stock
Differences Big-Box Decisions Affect Store market and the unemployment
I was asked to shed some light on Hiring Plans picture.
the differences between these I am wondering, do we really Mike "Mish" Shedlock
surveys. Except to reiterate an need "Walmart Express" at all? h t t p : / /
opinion from last year I cannot. At best it is a sign of total globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
Last year I stated that normal saturation of big boxes and a turf com
seasonal firing patterns may not battle for smaller cities and Click Here To Scroll Thru My
play out. My rationale was a neighborhoods. Recent Post List
belief that we would not see the As such, think about store hiring Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a
traditional release of employees in plans now vs. store hiring plans in registered investment advisor
the post-Christmas slump because t h e m i d s t o f t h e b i g - b o x representative for SitkaPacific
staffs were cut to the bone and commercial real estate boom. C a p i t a l M a n a g e m e n t . S i t k a
there was a marginal pickup in With the new "smaller is better" Pacific is an asset management
consumer demand. model, another commercial real f i r m w h o s e g o a l i s s t r o n g
That presumption now appears to estate boom remotely close to the performance and low volatility,
b e t h e c a s e . H o w e v e r , t h e build-out that occurred in 2005- regardless of market direction.
question is not one of a few good 2007 is not in the cards.
months of non-firing but rather Moreover, residential housing is GALLUP page 42
where to from here. still dead.
Newstablet Edition Economy/ 41

In Praise of Extreme Public Union Lunacy in San

Jose
noreply@blogger.com (Michael 214-member Confidential association, said it is not not waste money hiring
Shedlock) (Mish's Global Employees Organization, which Constant's prerogative to create employees they do not need.
Economic Trend Analysis) contends the city was required to his own "process and procedures," No one who stands up for the
Submitted at 3/6/2011 7:39:00 PM confer with the union before which she said conflict with labor taxpayer in public union
Hardly a week goes by in which I Constant decided to eliminate the agreements between the city and contracts. Worse yet, many of
do not see examples of extreme position. The job -- which the union. In Praise of Lunacy those contracts intrude on private CIVIL WAR LIVE:
public union idiocy. Nonetheless, r e q u i r e s a n s w e r i n g p h o n e s ,
it is rare to see an entirely new scheduling appointments and
I commend the sheer idiocy of rights as noted above. QADDAFI BOMBS
LaVerne Washington, president of The proper solution is the
concept prop up. Here's a new making photocopies, among other the employees' association, in complete elimination of public RAS LANUF AGAIN
one. duties -- pays about $70,000 a pressing this case. unions and all the slavery they Gus Lubin (Money Game)
Pete Constant, a San Jose year. LaVerne Washington shows stand for.
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:42:00 AM
Councilman wants to answer his "My concern quite frankly is not without a doubt why the only Please see Paul Krugman,
own phone. However, union rules who decides the issues. It's getting solution to this madness is the Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, Qaddafi's forces have started
dictate that he have a $70,000 a resolution on the core issue, total repudiation and complete others, Ignore Extortion, Bribery, bombing Ras Lanuf again.
assistant he does not even want. which is: Who should determine destruction of public unions. Coercion, and Slavery; No One In case you've lost track, that
What's even more ridiculous is the how I staff my office?" said I cheer Washington's idiocy Should Own You! for further means the oil port is currently
union has sent this matter to the Constant, who was re-elected last because this is just the kind of discussion of the slavery issue. controlled by the rebels. Various
courts to resolve. year to a second term representing thing that gets the public riled up Mike "Mish" Shedlock foreign correspondents are with
Please consider Internal Affairs: West San Jose. against public unions. It will h t t p : / / the rebels in Ras Lanuf, so this we
The fight over Councilman The City Council's only backfire. globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. have photos of the air strikes.
Constant's missing secretary At a R e p u b l i c a n c o n t e n d s t h a t Union Slave Rules com The rebels are trying to march
time when San Jose faces more residents of the district support his Union rules prohibit citizens Click Here To Scroll Thru My toward Tripoli, but they've been
than a $100 million budget deficit ability to make decisions for from being volunteer fireman, Recent Post List Mike attacked in Ras Lanuf and Bin
and the prospect of hundreds of them. Besides, Constant said, he from volunteering to help their "Mish" Shedlock is a registered Jawwad. The next town on their
l a y o f f s , S a n J o s e C i t y prefers to do all of the secretarial schools, from seeking non-union investment advisor representative path is Surt, according to the
Councilman Pete Constant is work himself, with help from four employment, and from controlling for SitkaPacific Capital NYT.
b a t t l i n g w i t h a C i t y H a l l full-time council aides. their own lives. Management. Sitka Pacific is an Here's a guide to Qaddafi's
employees' union over whether he Councilman Constant contends Now we see union rules dictate a asset management firm whose formidable military >
should be forced to hire an that the $70,000 can be better city councilman who does not goal is strong performance and Join the conversation about this
administrative assistant. spent on things such as resource want to hire an assistant to waste low volatility, regardless of story »
Judge Kevin McKenney of Santa fairs, helping neighborhood $70,000 hiring one. market direction. Visit http://
Clara County Superior Court associations, an online database People cannot yell "fire" in a www.sitkapacific.com/
recently ordered that the case be that updates Constant's office with movie theater, for good reason. account_management.html to
taken to a costly arbitration constituent information and For the same reason, union rights learn more about wealth
instead of the state's Public inquiries, and license fees for an to "organize" must stop at the management and capital
Employment Relations Board -- iPhone app that allows residents point when they tread on the preservation strategies of Sitka
something both Constant and the to easily report problems. rights of others to pursue Pacific.
city's attorneys had sought. But LaVerne Washington, employment, to do whatever they
That decision pleased the city's president of the employees' want with their own time, and to
42 Culture/ Finance/ Obituaries
OIL
continued from page 39
Bank (ECB). This has several
implications.
In the US, the Fed is worried
about employment and not about
headline inflation. US policy
looks at “core” inflation for
estimates of the impact of
monetary policy. Energy and
food price spikes are viewed as
“exogenous.” They are shocks to
systems but they are not caused
by monetary policy. They can do
economic damage that may
require monetary policy to ease
longer than otherwise would be
needed. Bernanke continues to
affirm his worry about jobs and
the economic recovery. At
Cumberland, we consider the
chances of aborting QE2 to be
zero. The Fed will finish the
QE2 program and then pause to
review data at the end of the
summer. Shorter-term interest
rates in the US are likely to
remain where they are for all of
2011 and, perhaps, much longer.
In Europe, the focus is more on
headline inflation. Europeans
tolerate higher unemployment
rates more easily than we do.
Moreover, they manage their
monetary policy on the overall
inflation rate outlook and not on
UK bank bonuses vs US bank bonuses
(Finance News - Business news
from the UK and world)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:04:04 AM
Barclays chief executive Bob
Diamond has been handed
£10.1m in salary, bonus and stock
the “core.” Thus food and energy
prices are encouraging the ECB to
tighten policy sooner rather than
later. Our colleague Bill
Witherell just discussed the
upgrading of our outlook for
Europe; he gave some specifics
on how we are positioning within
those portfolios. See
www.cumber.com for Bill’s latest
missive.
Readers are also advised to
consider the shifts in global
preferences for reserves. Oil
exporters have a lower USD
preference than oil importers,”
says Barclays. Barclays expects
this shift to favor the euro. By
analyzing the Treasury flow data,
they derive an estimate that every
$10 a barrel increase in oil price
results in a $2.4 billion per month
of reduced demand for USD.
Barclays admits this is a difficult
estimate to quantify. As to the
direction, they are “confident.”
Lastly, we remind readers about
a special meeting in Rome on
April 6-7-8. When we planned
the GIC conference a year ago,
we had no idea that Libya would
implode and that Italy would be
the point country dealing with the
energy impact and the Eurozone
for his performance in 2010. The
pay-out makes him the UK's best-
paid bank boss. But as far as
bonuses go, he is still trailing
behind his US rivals.
effects. Now we have an all-star
lineup in Rome; and the issue of
Europe’s recovery, monetary
policy, and the energy impact will
be part of the discussion. The
GIC delegation is up to 34. We
typically cut that off at 40 or so.
The other participants are from
many European countries and
there is a significant number from
Italy. Call GIC for details while
there are still a few seats left.
215-898-9453.
We have pasted the latest
version of the GIC conference
lineup below. Cumberland
Advisors is a proud sponsor of
the Global Interdependence
C e n t e r , (Holy Kaw!)
www.interdependence.org.
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Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com time shuttle crew
/account_management.html to
learn more about wealth member, dies (AP)
m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l (Yahoo! News: Obituaries)
preservation strategies of Sitka Submitted at 3/6/2011 9:26:34 PM
Pacific.
AP - Three-time space shuttle
crew member John Lounge, who
was part of the first shuttle
mission after the 1986 shuttle
Challenger disaster, has died at
age 64.
10 remarkable
exoplanets
humans, it does hold the
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:55:00 AM distinction of being one of the
first rocky super-Earths ever
From a planetary perspective, discovered.
there's no place like home -- as far • MOA-2007-BLG-192-L B: Or
as we know, at least. But that more succinctly MOA-192 b. The
hasn't stopped us from looking for planet orbits a star much smaller
other intriguing interstellar than the sun -- a star so small, in
planets, some of which we might fact, that it can't sustain fusion
even colonize in the distant future. reactions.
Finding these planets, known as • Kepler 11 F: The Kepler 11
exoplanets since they are located solar system is interesting not just
outside of our solar system, is because it has more planets than
difficult work. any we've observed outside our
To date, NASA's New Worlds o w n , b u t a l s o b e c a u s e i t ' s
Atlas lists fewer than a thousand e x t r e m e l y c o m p a c t .
confirmed exoplanets, quite a
small number considering the Full list at HowStuffWorks.com.
billions of stars in our galaxy Total aggregation of
alone. Read on to learn about H o w S t u f f W o r k s . c o m .
some of their most amazing finds Photo credit: Fotolia
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• Gliese 876 D: While Gliese 876
d likely won't ever be home to
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Apple's Amazing iPad Business In
Context (AAPL)
Dan Frommer (Money Game)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:33:00 AM
Apple's iPad is already a massive
business. The most amazing thing
is that it didn't exist a year ago.
In the first 9 months of sales last
year, Apple sold almost 15
million iPads, generating almost
$10 billion in revenue.
This year, analysts expect iPad
sales figures to nearly double, led
by the iPad 2, which goes on sale
this Friday.
If iPad sales beat wild
expectations this year -- the same
way they did last year -- iPad
revenue could potentially reach
$20 billion this year.
That's crazy. And potentially
bigger than the Mac business was
in 2010, at $18.5 billion. Last
quarter, the 9-month-old iPad
business was almost as big as
Apple's 26-year-old Mac business.
Top 10 Things to Look for to Find Your Dream Neighborhood
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 8:00:56 AM
Before you even start looking for
a place to buy or rent, you need to
consider the neighborhood. After
all, there's no point in falling in
love with a home in an area you
can't stand. If you don't do your
iPads generated $4.6 billion in
sales, while Macs generated $5.4
billion. iPads smoked the Mac in
unit shipments, though: 7.3
million iPads vs. 4.1 million
Macs.
In first-6-months unit sales,
Apple beats the gadget hall of
fame, including the Motorola
RAZR, Sony PSP, and Nintendo
research when you're buying a
TV, you can always return it if
you realize it's not what you want.
But you can't do the same when
you sign a lease or a mortgage
and don't do your homework first.
If you realize after you move that
the neighborhood's not for you,
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• Necker Island, British Virgin
Imagine you suddenly have more Islands: Richard Branson recalled
money than you know what to do purchasing the undeveloped
with. You have a home on every island for a mere $100,000 in
continent and a private yacht 1978, estimating the 74-acre (30-
bigger than the house you grew up hectare) island's present-day value
in. But still, something is missing. at somewhere around $60 million.
And that something is your own • Scott Island, British Columbia:
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hideaways to choose from, it's -square-foot residence and a
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Testing Your Connection's Speed Just Got Competitive (and

Social)
Ryan Singel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 8:53:00 AM

The world’s most popular

broadband bandwidth speed
testing network is getting on the
social bandwagon, starting
Monday.
Speedtest.net, which had 165
million unique users in 2010, is
now offering a way for users to
sign up, save their results, share
them with friends, create shared
tests, and even win badges.
The service will still allow
unregistered users to test their
cable, DSL, and 3G connections,
but registered users can combine
results from different devices and
locations. They can also easily
share their results and history by show up in a shared view. wickedly fast connection. Each had decently priced, super-fast “Users strong-armed us into it,”
publishing them on the web. So Suttles suggests there’s even wave comes with “badges” that a connections to show off to their Suttles said. “But we did add it
for instance, a user who starts to bigger uses for that kind of user can win, including ones for friends. and with good reason. Users can
have a problem with their collaboration. the fastest and slowest speeds, as The world’s most popular now log in, and they don’t lose
connection can send a link to their “If a city council wanted to collect well as a “Happy Panda” badge broadband bandwidth speed their history if they get a new
ISP to show them that they are broadband info on their for the most improved. testing network is getting on the computer or clear their cookies.”
experiencing a new drop in speed. community, they could create a Suttles himself isn’t immune to social bandwagon, starting The service will still allow
That’s useful because ISPs trust wave for the city, and all the the competitive aspect. When Monday. unregistered users to test their
Speedtest.net, according to results are crunched in real time,” demoing the site to Wired, he Speedtest.net, which had 165 cable, DSL and 3G connections,
Suttles, in no small part because Suttles said. (If that sounds showed a Wave that included a million unique users in 2010, is but registered users can combine
many of them power their own suspiciously close to the FCC’s test from a Seattle Times reporter, now offering a way for users to results from different devices and
broadband testing systems using a attempt to collect broadband data who clocked in with 102 Mbps sign up, save their results, share locations. They can also easily
white-label version of nationally, it should — Suttles down and over 50 Mbps up, them with friends, create shared share their results and history by
Speedtest.net. says he offered to hand that data putting him clearly in first place. tests and even win badges. publishing them on the web. So
Registered users can also create a to the FCC for free, to no avail.) Suttles, who has a 100 Mbps Doug Suttles, the founder of for instance, a user who starts to
“wave,” which is essentially a And then there’s vanity. Comcast connection at his house Ookla, the service’s parent have a problem with their
group that lets people share “People like to show off,” Suttles for testing purposes, ended the company, said he resisted the idea connection can send a link to their
results. So if an office adds Wi-Fi, said, pointing to a recently call, saying he was going to go for a long time, arguing that as a ISP to show them that they are
employees can all test the new popular Reddit thread where a post the high score. utility there was no need to have a
connection and have their results visitor to a Korea showed off a Now, if only the rest of America login system. TESTING page 46
Newstablet Edition
Sleep Quality May Be Tied to Covert Brain Wave
Bruce Bower (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:00:00 AM
Making waves isn’t conducive to
staying asleep, at least when the
waves are a type of brain signal
associated with being awake.
A type of brain activity known as
an alpha wave emanates from the
back of the head when a person is
awake but relaxing with eyes
closed. Scientists used to think
that the wave was subdued and
disappeared as a person fell
deeper and deeper into sleep.
But the alpha wave doesn’t
disappear; it just goes undercover
during sleep, researchers report
online March 3 in PLoS One. The
covert alpha wave may help
determine how deeply people
sleep and how much noise is
needed to rouse a sleeper.
The finding “stresses that sleep is
really a dynamic process,” says
Mathias Basner, a sleep
researcher at the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia who
was not involved in the study. The
study shows that sleep doesn’t
happen just in discrete blocks, as
most charts of sleep stages would
indicate. Instead, brain activity
changes from moment to moment
during sleep.
“It may suggest that something is
going on in the central nervous
system that we don’t know about
and should maybe pay more
attention to,” Basner says.
Scientists hadn’t ignored alpha
waves on purpose, says study
coauthor Scott McKinney, a sleep
scientist at Massachusetts General
Hospital and Harvard University.
Researchers typically measure
brain activity during sleep with
electroencephalographs, or EEGs,
devices that use electrodes on the
scalp to detect electrical activity
in the brain. The squiggly lines
recorded by the EEG can be hard
to interpret with the naked eye, so
McKinney and his colleagues
used computer programs to break
the EEG signals from 13
volunteers down into discrete
waves. The analysis revealed that
alpha waves never truly go away;
they just get drowned out by more
vigorous signals the way
spreading ripples from a small
rock dropped in a pond are
swamped by waves from a
passing speedboat.
Alpha wave activity decreases as
people enter ever-deeper levels of
sleep and increases as people
cycle back into more shallow
sleep stages. In study participants,
the ups and downs of alpha wave
activity were closely associated
with how easily a person could be
awoken by traffic noises, loud
talking or other sounds that might
be encountered in hospital or at
home in a city. When alpha wave
activity spiked just before a noise
was played, volunteers woke up
more easily than when alpha wave
activity was low, the researchers
found.
Alpha wave activity may be the
brain’s way of keeping people
aware of their surroundings
during sleep, speculates Phyllis
Zee, director of the Sleep
Disorders Program at
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Northwestern University in
Chicago. Such awareness enables
people to wake quickly in case of
danger, but too much alpha
activity might also have a
downside if it prevents a good
night of sleep.
People with insomnia commonly
complain that they are very light
sleepers and are always aware of
their surroundings, Zee says.
Although many insomniacs get a
full night of sleep, they report that
their sleep is not restful. But
laboratory tests often don’t show
any abnormalities.
“The classical way we’re scoring
sleep may not give a good handle
on what a patient really
experiences,” she says. “This new
way of analyzing depth of sleep
may be used to get a better
understanding of a patient’s
complaint.”
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TESTING Barclays chief Bob

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experiencing a new drop in speed.
That’s useful because ISPs trust
Speedtest.net, according to
Suttles, in no small part because
many of them power their own
broadband testing systems using a
re-branded version of
Speedtest.net.
Registered users can also create a
“wave,” which is essentially a
group that lets people share
results. So if an office adds Wi-Fi,
employees can all test the new
connection and have their results
show up in a shared view.
Suttles suggests there’s even
bigger uses for that kind of
collaboration.
“If a city council wanted to collect
broadband info on their
community, they could create a
wave for the city, and all the
results are crunched in real time,”
Suttles said. (If that sounds
suspiciously close to the FCC’s
attempt to collect broadband data
nationally, it should — Suttles
says he offered to hand that data
to the FCC for free, to no avail.)
And then there’s vanity.
“People like to show off,” Suttles
said, pointing to a recently
popular Reddit thread where a
visitor to a Korea showed off a
wickedly fast connection. Each
wave comes with “badges” that a
user can win, including ones for
the fastest and slowest speeds, as
well as a “Happy Panda” badge
for the most improved.
Suttles himself isn’t immune to
the competitive aspect. When
demoing the site to Wired, he
showed a Wave that included a
test from a Seattle Times reporter,
who clocked in with 102 Mbps
down and over 50 Mbps up,
putting him clearly in first place.
Suttles, who has a 100 Mbps
Comcast connection at his house
for testing purposes, ended the
call, saying he was going to go
post the high score.
Now, if only the rest of America
had decently priced, superfast
connections to show off to their
friends.
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Knight's Taxidermy will be the
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Hague addresses MPs over botched Libya SAS mission

Andrew Sparrow (The Guardian director, is typical: "British trade days, but every now and then based on professional and military theory first floated by my
World News) and investment benefits greatly something happens that can have advice," he said. Timing and colleague Nicholas Watt in a blog
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:49:03 AM from the strong support that the a permanent impact on someone's details of the mission were last week).
Duke of York provides in his role reputation. It is possible that we "operational matters decided by 4.34pm: Ben Wallace, a
Rolling coverage of all the day's as the UK's special representative might have witnessed such a the professionals", he said. One Conservative, asks if it is true that
political developments including f o r i n t e r n a t i o n a l t r a d e & moment. But Hague was helped Labour MP said he should resign, Libya has mustard gas. Doesn't
William Hague's statement on the i n v e s t m e n t . " enormously by the fact that he and another urged him to that show that Labour was wrong
botched Libya SAS mission That's it for today. Thanks for the received very little criticism from apologise. Hague did neither. But to claim that Libya had given up
5.20pm: Here's an afternoon comments. Conservative MPs, and he looked he did say he took full its WMD?
summary. 5.17pm: The BBC's Nick slightly more comfortable towards responsibility. "Ministers must Hague says Libya does have
• William Hague has said that he Robinson has just posted his the end of the session then he did have confidence in [the stocks of mustard gas. Britain has
takes "full responsibility" for the verdict on Hague's performance when listening to his Labour professionals'] judgments, as I do, asked for those stocks to be made
decision to order the mission that on a blog. Here's an extract. opposite number. and must take full ministerial secure. He does not know why the
led to MI6 officers and SAS The foreign secretary appeared 4.38pm: The statement is almost responsibility for all their actions Labour government did not make
soldiers being detained in Libya. demoralised or, perhaps, bored by over now. Here's a summary of and judgments and, of course, I this information public.
As he made a statement in the the attacks on him for what has the main points. do," he said. 4.32pm: Labour's Yasmin
Commons on the affair, Sir gone wrong in recent weeks. He • William Hague has said that he • Douglas Alexander said there Qureshi asks Hague if he will
Menzies Campbell, the former simply absorbed the blows which takes "full responsibility" for the was now "serious questions" apologise for what happened at
Lib Dem leader, asked him: "Isn't came from both the opposition decision to order the mission that about Hague's handling of the the weekend.
it clear that this mission was ill- and his own side without hitting led to MI6 officers and SAS crisis. His most devastating Hague says he has already made
conceived, poorly planned and back. soldiers being detained in Libya. intervention came when he quoted his position clear.
embarrassingly executed? What 4.57pm: Overall, this was In a Commons appearance that a spokesman for the Libyan 4.30pm: Andy Love, a Labour
are you going to do to restore the H a g u e ' s w o r s t h o u r i n t h e saw him being ridiculed by his opposition who told the Times MP, says the failed mission left
reputation of the United Kingdom Commons since becoming foreign Labour opposite number, Douglas that he did not understand why the Britain looking "risible" in
in relation to foreign policy in the secretary. He did not quite reach Alexander, Hague offered little British team did not just make a international circles.
Middle East?" For more details, the Gordon Brown scale in the fresh information about the normal appointment to see the Hague says other missions to
see 4.38pm. blame avoidance league, but there botched mission and padded out revolutionary council. "The Libya have been successful.
• Ed Miliband has paid tribute to is a sharp contrast between his his statement with a general British public are entitled to 4.27pm: Richard Drax, a
Prince Andrew."I worked with performance today and Caroline update about the situation in the wonder whether, if some new Conservative, says that if there
Prince Andrew when I was in Spelman's when she announced Middle East. Hague said that a neighbours moved into the foreign were a no-fly zone, helicopters
government and I saw him doing the forest privatisation U-turn. "serious misunderstanding" had secretary's street, he would would have to be available to
an important job in promoting She apologised profusely; Hague led to the MI6/SAS team being introduce himself by ringing the rescue any pilots shot down.
British trade and industry," the said as little about his mishap as detained. He failed to give a clear doorbell or instead choose to Where would they be based, given
Labour leader said on a visit to p o s s i b l e a n d , a l t h o u g h h e explanation as to why the team, climb over the fence in the middle that Britain does not have an
Northern Ireland. Miliband said it ostensibly took responsibility, he which was sent to Benghazi to of the night," he said. aircraft carrier available?
was up to the government to said that others were responsible make contact with the opposition, • Hague said that the Palestinian Hague says this is the kind of
decide what the prince's future as for the "timing and details" of the landed by helicopter at night, delegation in London was being issue that the contingency
a trade envoy should be. mission and he implied that MI6 instead of making a conventional upgraded to the diplomatic status planning is considering.
• UK Trade and Investment has or the military were to blame. daytime appointment. He of a mission. 4.23pm: John Baron, a
published a series of quotes from Douglas Alexander ridiculed the suggested that MI6 or the military I'll post a brief analysis in a Conservative, suggests that the
firms paying tribute to the work foreign secretary, using wit and were to blame. "When our staff go moment. lesson of this is that the British
Prince Andrew has done as a trade understatement to powerful effect. into a potentially dangerous 4.36pm: Labour's Paul Flynn should stop lecturing people on
envoy. This one, from Malcolm What happens in the chamber is situation, then the level of suggests the Tory ministers have
Brinded, the Shell managing normally of little relevance these protection is provided for them "overdosed on James Bond" (a HAGUE page 50
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their affairs.
4.22pm: Julian Brazier, a
Conservative, says "humanitarian
aid supported by military means"
is unlikely to be seen as aid.
Hague accepts that Brazier has a
point. He stresses that the
government is involved in
contingency planning.
4.19pm: Andrew Murrison, a
Conservative, asks what the EU
foreign service is doing about the
crisis.
Hague says Lady Ashton, the EU
"foreign minister", has been
making visits to the region.
4.16pm: Labour's Jeremy Corbyn
asks about Bahrain and Saudia
Arabia. Human rights is more
important than selling arms, he
says.
Hague says it is important for
people to be allowed to protest
peacefully.
4.15pm: Labour's Barry Gardiner
asks who the "diplomats" on the
MI6/SAS mission were supposed
to be meeting. And why did they
have multiple identities.
Hague says the group met the
head of the revolutionary council.
4.12pm: Rory Stewart, a
Conservative, asks Hague to
consider setting up escrow
account for Libyan oil revenues.
Hague says he is looking at ways
of restricting the money going to
the Libyan regime. He will look at
that kind of measure, he says,
4.12pm: The full text of Hague's
opening statement is now on the
Foreign Office website.
4.10pm: The Tory MP Robert
Halfon asks Hague to set up an
inquiry into the last government's
links with Libya. Hague says that
he has other issues to worry about
at the moment, although he
concedes that there are lessons to
be learnt.
4.07pm: Hague is still answering
questions. In response to a
question from the Tory, Bernard
Jenkin, about taking credit for
what goes right and taking the
blame for what goes wrong,
Hague jokes that, when he led the
Conservative party for four years,
he never came across this notion.
4.02pm: Here's the killer quote
from Douglas Alexander that I
referred to at 3.46pm. Alexander
started by reading out the Mustafa
Gheriani question from the Times:
"If this is an official delegation
why did they come with a
helicopter? Why didn't they
[inform the revolutionary council]
that 'we are coming, we'd like to
land at Benina airport', or come
through Egypt like all the
journalists have done." Then
Alexander said this:
The British public are entitled to
wonder whether, if some new
neighbours moved into the foreign
secretary's street, he would
introduce himself by ringing the
doorbell, or instead choose to
climb over the fence in the middle
of the night.
4.00pm: Labour's Ben Bradshaw
asks why the MI6 team did not go
straight into Benghazi.
Hague says that diplomats are
protected in line with the
intelligence and security advice.
3.58pm: Labour's Denis
MacShane says that he has been
reading European and American
papers and that the notion that
Britain is a leader in the crisis
exists only in Hague's head. Has
Hague considered resigning?
Hague says he takes the doctrine
of ministerial responsibility
seriously.
3.56pm: Labour's Bob Ainsworth
suggests that Hague is more
concerned about being seen to be
doing something than actually
doing something.
3.56pm: Sir Menzies Campbell,
the former Lib Dem leader, says
the mission was poorly conceived.
3.54pm: Labour's Jack Straw
says, in his experience, ministers
are always offered an impressive
amount of operational detail about
missions like this when asked to
approve them. Are government
ministers getting less detail than
Labour ministers did?
Hague says the situation has not
changed. But every operation is
different, he says.
3.53pm: Hague says there would
have to be a "demonstrable need"
for a no-fly zone for one to be
imposed. There would have to be
support from other countries in
the region, he says.
3.49pm: Hague is still replying to
Douglas Alexander. He says
contingency planning should be
done for a no-fly zone. Labour
agree with this, he says.
On this issue of the mission, he
says Alexander is "right about the
factual points". That is an answer
to the point about the opposition
HQ being just two miles from the
port.
Hague says he authorised the
mission. The timing and details
are "operational matters decided
by the professionals", he says.
David Cameron and other
colleagues were aware of this, he
says.
Hague says Britain "led the way"
in getting Libya suspended from
the UN human rights commission.
British foreign policy has had an
"extremely powerful" impact on
the situation, he says.
3.48pm: Hague thanks Douglas
Alexander for paying tribute to
the work of the SAS in rescuing
people from the oil field areas.
He is talking now about the Arab
League. (It sounds as if he is
playing for time, before having to
address Alexander's points about
the MI6/SAS mission.)
3.46pm: Douglas Alexander asks
Hague if he would introduce
himself to new neighbours by
knocking on the door - or by
climbing into their garden in the
middle of the night.
I'll post the full quote later. It was
a lethal line, made all the more
effective by Alexander's deadpan
delivery.
3.44pm: Douglas Alexander asks
Hague to confirm that the
revolutionary council HQ is just
two miles away from where HMS
Cumberland was docked in port.
And he quotes the question from
Mustafa Gheriani included in the
Times article - see 3.31pm.
3.43pm: Douglas Alexander, the
shadow foreign secretary, is
speaking now. He started by
acknowledging that these
decisions are difficult. But then he
listed a series of apparent errors
made by the Foreign Office.
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3.38pm: Hague has just finished
now. His statement was quite
lengthy, but he was padding it out
with plenty of general comments
about what is happening in the
region. He covered the MI6/SAS
mission in just five sentences.
Here is the full quote.
Last week I authorised the
dispatch of a small diplomatic
team to Eastern Libya in uncertain
circumstances which we judged
required their protection to build
on these initial contacts [with the
Libyan opposition] and to assess
the scope for closer diplomatic
dialogue. I pay tribute to that
team. They were withdrawn
yesterday after a serious
misunderstanding about their role
leading to temporary detention.
This situation was resolved and
they were able to meet [an
opposition leader]. However it
was clearly better for this team to
be withdrawn.
3.36pm: Hague says Andrew
Mitchell, the international
development secretary, has visited
the region to find out about the
humanitarian crisis on Libya's
border.
3.35pm: Hague says 180 Britons
are still in Libya. Some of them,
such as journalists, have said they
intend to stay.
The international criminal court
is investigating alleged crimes in
Libya, he says.
EU sanctions against Libya came
into full force last Thursday. That
was the quickest ever imposition
of EU sanctions.
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3.33pm: Hague says he
authorised the dispatch of a "small
diplomatic team" to Libya in
circumstances that meant they
needed armed protection. They
were withdrawn after a
misunderstanding about their
intentions, he says.
3.32pm: 3.32pm: William Hague
is speaking now. He says MPs
will be concerned by the violence
in Libya. There are credible
reports of the use of helicopter
gunships.
In Tripoli there have been
"disturbing reports of hostage
taking".
In large swathes of the country,
Colonel Gaddafi's authority is
contested.
Gaddafi must put "an immediate
stop" to the use of armed force
and hand over power, Hague says.
3.31pm: And here's an extract
from the Times story explaining
why the MI6/SAS story was so
odd.
The team could have come in
with HMS Cumberland, a British
frigate that was openly docked in
Benghazi port yesterday, and
caught a taxi a couple of miles to
the court building where the
revolutionary council's
representatives meet the press and
conduct their daily business. That
way, they might have avoided
being captured.
The rebel council, which declared
itself this weekend the sole
legitimate authority in the
country, expressed surprise and
annoyance at the British
delegation's "James Bond" antics.
"If this is an official delegation
why did they come with a
helicopter? Why didn't they
[inform the revolutionary council]
that 'we are coming, we'd like to
land at Benina airport', or come
through Egypt like all the
journalists have done," Mustafa
Gheriani, a spokesman for the
revolutionary leadership, asked.
3.25pm: According to the Sun
version of the MI6/SAS story,
after the mission "Libyans were
filmed holding underpants said to
belong to one Brit - which they
said had a secret compartment
sewn into it."
3.19pm: William Hague will be
making his statement to the
Commons in 10 minutes. He's
going to have to explain why he
sent an MI6/SAS mission into
Libya by helicopter at night to get
in touch with the rebels when it
appears he could have just called
them up to arrange an
appointment. In an article in
today's Guardian, my colleague
Richard Norton Taylor explains
quite how odd this was.
Why, as reporters in Benghazi
asked on Sunday, did a unit of six
SAS troops, apparently in the
company of two "diplomats",
have to be dropped by helicopter
in the desert in middle of the night
when they could have walked
down the gangplank of the
destroyer HMS York on the
Benghazi quayside? Perhaps they
cannot resist the temptation of
mounting an operation that would
sound really daring if it was
written up in the media.
Sources – I cannot describe them
in any other way – said late last
week that the government was
sending advisers to eastern Libya
to help the rebels. It was
emphasised that the government
would not supply them with arms
as there is an embargo currently.
Yet the rebels, unsurprisingly
angered by an operation that
could further inflame the
situation, reported that the men in
the helicopter had ammunition,
explosives and a number of
passports of different
nationalities.
2.49pm: Since John Prescott is in
the news today, it's worth pointing
out that Lord Mandelson seems to
be blaming him for the fact that
Labour does not its own Big
Society policy. This is from the
new preface that Mandelson has
written for the paperback edition
of his autobiography, The Third
Man.
The "big society" has roots in our
own New Labour search for a
political model that would better
define the role of a decentralised
state, and the relationship between
government and the governed, for
the new century ... Exactly how to
do this - how government,
communities, charities, families
interact in their neighbourhoods -
is something we had simply not
worked out by the time we
departed office. Tony had left this
whole area of policy
fundamentally unreformed, in
John Prescott's ministerial
domain, and it was not picked up
by Gordon when he took over.
The new preface is fascinating.
After the first extracts were
released, the news reports focused
on Mandelson's comments about
Ed Miliband. But there are plenty
of other revelations and
observations in there. Sunder
Katwala has written some of them
up at Next Left, John Rentoul has
also mentioned some on his blog
and I quoted from it here and here
over the weekend. Here are a few
other points worth mentioning.
• Mandelson suggests that tuition
fees would have gone up to
£6,000 if Labour had won the
election.
When I [set up the Browne
review] in November 2009 I
assumed, as the Treasury did, that
the outcome would have to
include a significant increase in
tuition fees. I felt that they would
certainly have to double in order
to offset the deficit-reduction
measures that we too would have
implemented had we won the
election.
• Mandelson says it would be a
mistake to write off the Lib Dems.
My suspicion is that Clegg's
decision to take his party into
government may work out better
in the end than it appears now ...
[If the economy does not fall back
into recession] Clegg will be able
to argue that, for all the difficult
moments, he has taken his party
into national office for the first
time since the heyday of the old
Liberals at the beginning of the
last century.
• Mandelson suggests Ed
Miliband needs to repair relations
with Nick Clegg. Some Labour
figures have said that the Lib
Dems would have to get rid of
Clegg as leader before Labour
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could join them in a coalition and
Mandelson acknowledges that
"the short-term temptation is for
us to try to isolate Nick Clegg and
to pick off the many Lib Dem
voters obviously disgruntled with
the compromises he has had to
make". But the Lib Dems could
do well enough at the next
election to ensure that there is
another hung parliament.
In this event, Ed Miliband will
not make enough Lib Dem friends
by harking on about their "tragic
mistake" in going in with the
Tories and offering them the
chance to recant and come hither.
In the short term, of course, more
leftwing Lib Dems may well be
enticed by that approach. In the
longer term, he, and we, need to
repair and rebuild relations with
the Lib Dem leadership as well.
2.42pm: Here's George Osborne
explaining why the cabinet
decided to meet in Derby today.
The reason the cabinet has come
en masse to Derby, to this great
company here, is to show that
there's a future for Britain that is
not so dependent on debt, on the
City of London, or growth just in
the south east of England which is
where we've been for the last
decade, but actually we've got an
economy in the future which is
going to manufacture things again
in Britain and it's going to grow in
all parts of the country, including
the East Midlands.
According to the Press
Association, Osborne also
claimed that the cuts were being
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spread "pretty fairly" across the
country and that "some of the
biggest cuts are in David
Cameron's own constituency
[Witney in Oxfordshire]."
Does anyone know if that's true?
2.29pm: One of the glories of the
British constitution is that we
appear to make it up as we go
along. Sir Gus O'Donnell, the
cabinet secretary, has tried to
impose some rigour on the system
by producing a"Cabinet Manual"
setting out the rules. In December
he published a fresh draft of this
document saying that, in the event
of a hung parliament, the prime
minister is not expected to resign
until it is clear that someone else
can form a government. That does
not sound particularly
controversial.
But it is. In a report today on the
Cabinet Manual, the House of
Lords constitution committee says
this passage should be rewritten.
It is a matter of debate as to
whether a prime minister has a
duty to stay in office until it is
clear who might command the
confidence of the House of
Commons. The Manual should
distinguish between the right to
remain in office and the duty to
do so ... The Manual should state
that there is a degree of
uncertainty on this point ...
We ... consider that an incumbent
prime minister has no duty to
remain in office following an
inconclusive general election until
it is clear what form any
alternative government might
take.
1.39pm: Sir Andrew Cahn, the
former head of UK Trade and
Investment, told the World at One
that Prince Andrew achieved "a
whole series of successes" in his
role as trade ambassador in the
five years that Cahn was at UKTI.
According to PoliticsHome, this is
how Cahn put it.
He's there for the long term and
he has a status which other trade
representatives don't have. He's
particularly effective in the Gulf,
for example, where for many
royal families who are there, for
many years who are friendly with
our Royal family and who listen
to what they have to say.
Ministers come and go. The
Duke of York is there for a much
longer term and anyway what the
Duke of York does is add to what
ministers do. He can make more
trips than ministers can, but
particularly at his level. And he
gets an access that more junior
ministers can't get.
You always have stuff swirling
around the Royals. All I know is
that in the five years that I worked
with him he was highly regarded
overseas and achieved a whole
series of successes. He's a really
effective trade ambassador.
1.06pm: Here's a lunchtime
summary.
• Downing Street has said that
David Cameron has full
confidence in Prince Andrew in
his role as a trade envoy. The
prime minister's spokesman has
denied reports that the prince's
role is under review and paid
tribute to the "valuable
contribution" that the prince
makes. Labour's Chris Bryant, the
shadow political and
constitutional reform minister, has
said that the prince should be
dropped because he's "a bit of an
embarrassment". But Labour
sources have said that this is not
the party's official position. (See
9.01am and 11.55am.)
• David Cameron has sought to
illustrate the government's
commitment to boosting growth
by chairing a cabinet meeting at a
Rolls Royce plant in Derby."I
know some good work's been
done [on the growth review] but
we have a lot more to do to make
sure this really does help to make
the economy rebalance and to
grow," Cameron said. (See
12.45pm.)
• Downing Street has said that
William Hague took the decision
to authorise the botched MI6/SAS
mission to Libya. Hague will
make a statement about the affair
in the Commons at 3.30pm.
12.57pm: If you haven't already
looked at Decca Aitkenhead's
interview with John Prescott for
G2, you should. It's a very jolly
read. Appropriately enough, on
the day Cherie Blair takes up a
Labour policy role (see 10.51am),
the interview includes Prescott
having a go at the "wifeocracy".
I talk to Tony more than Gordon.
But then Tony keeps in contact.
Gordon switches off. I'm not
going to tell you what I think
about that, 'cos you'll bloody well
print it. But we hear more from
his wife than him, don't we? What
is it with this wifeocracy? All the
wives! Cherie Blair. Even
Cameron's wife. They're all
running round the fashion shops
giving their political views. It's a
wifeocracy! They're not elected
by anybody! I mean, bloody hell,
you've only got to talk about the
Speaker's wife, haven't you? They
only get on 'cos of who they're
married to! They might not like
this, but that's what it basically is.
12.45pm: In Derby David
Cameron has been talking about
his decision to hold a cabinet
meeting at a Rolls Royce plant.
According to the Press
Association, he said this:
The point of the cabinet today is
really to ask one fundamental
question: what is it that we can do
in government to help the
economy to rebalance, to grow,
and for businesses to start up to
invest and to employ people? That
is large businesses but also all the
way down the chain to start-up
businesses as well. We've got just
two weeks to go before the
budget. I think that gives us an
opportunity to make sure what
we're all looking at in the growth
review, issues as far and wide as
planning, housing, enterprise,
taxation, all those things, we can
bring them together in that
budget. I know some good work's
been done but we have a lot more
to do to make sure this really does
help to make the economy
rebalance and to grow.
According to the BBC's Laura
Kuenssberg, Cameron has been
taking questions from reporters
about growth. But he has not been
answering questions about Libya
or Prince Andrew.
12.36pm: Mike Gapes, the
Newstablet Edition
Labour former chairman of the
foreign affairs committee, has told
the BBC's Daily Politics show
that Prince Andrew should give
up his job as a trade envoy
because "he's an embarrassment
to the Royal family". According
to PoliticsHome, Gapes said the
prince should be replaced by
someone like an MP or a peer
who would be accountable to
parliament.
11.55am: I'm just back from the
Number 10 lobby briefing. One
rule of lobby briefings is that the
longer they go on, the less
informative they tend to be. This
one went on for ages because
journalists were trying, without
any success, to get Downing
Street to a) confirm reports that
Prince Andrew's position as a
trade envoy is under threat and b)
explain why the government
landed SAS officers by helicopter
at night in Libya to get in touch
with the opposition when it would
have been quite easy to set up a
conventional diplomatic meeting
in Benghazi in office hours. Here
are the key points.
• David Cameron has full
confidence in Prince Andrew in
his role as a trade envoy, the
prime minister's spokesman said.
There is no "review" of the
prince's role. "We fully support
him in his role as a trade envoy.
He has made a very important
contribution, and continues to do
so." The spokesman would not
comment on the various reports
today saying that the prince's role
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is going to be downgraded or that
he is effectively on a final
warning. These stories were based
on unattributable comments, the
spokesman said. The spokesman
also promised to produce a list of
quotes from British companies
testifying to the fact that the
prince has made a valuable
contribution in his role as a trade
envoy since he took it up in 2001.
• William Hague, the foreign
secretary, took the decision to
authorise the botched MI6/SAS
mission to Libya, Downing Street
said. The spokesman was at first
evasive when asked who took the
decision for the flight to go ahead,
but eventually he said: "The
foreign secretary takes these
decisions." But he also said that
Cameron and Hague had been
discussing this issue for days and
that Cameron had said publicly
that he wanted to "strengthen and
deepen" the government's
understand of and relationship
with the Libyan opposition.
Asked why the government did
not just send a diplomatic team to
meet the rebel leaders by taxi, the
spokesman said: "I'm not getting
into the operational aspect of this
issue." He said Hague would be
saying more when he made his
statement to the Commons at
3.30pm.
The spokesman also said that
there were no plans for Cameron
to give any television interviews
this afternoon. This is unusual
because Cameron is on a regional
visit, and normally getting
television coverage is a key part
of a regional tour. The spokesman
denied a claim from a TV reporter
that Cameron cancelled an
interview planned for today.
Other ministers would be put up
instead, the spokesman suggested.
10.51am: Cherie Blair is to lead a
Labour taskforce looking at ways
of improving the lives of women
in the developing world, the BBC
reports.
I'm off to the lobby briefing. I'll
post again after 11.30am.
10.29am: You can read all
today's Guardian politics stories
here. And all the politics stories
filed yesterday, including some in
today's paper, are here.
As for the rest of the papers, here
are some articles worth noting.
• Lord Mandelson in the Financial
Times(subscription) says that the
last Labour government was right
to establish business links with
Libya and that the backlash
against these deals has gone too
far.
The stigmatisating of every
business leader, academic,
politician and public servant who
has had anything to do with Libya
in the last seven years has been
taken to ridiculous lengths in
some quarters. Spurred by
universal disgust with the Gaddafi
dictatorship's recent outrages,
sense and judgment have flown
out of the window as normally
intelligent commentators vie in
their denunciation of anyone who
acted in the public interest in
deepening ties with Libyan
people, institutions or that
country's economy.
If, as a result of this pressure,
British businesses in future shy
away from international
investment for fear of risking
similar opprobrium, Britain's
relative decline in the global
economy can only worsen. It is
difficult enough already for us to
compete against the world's rising
economic powerhouses. If on top
of our present disadvantages –
high relative costs of production,
considerable regulatory
constraint, weak entrepreneurial
drive and barriers to entry to
many fast-growing markets – we
introduce a further hurdle of
rejection of any country less
savoury and democratic than our
own, our employment levels and
standard of living are going to
fare very badly in this century.
• Sam Lister in the
Times(paywall) says most
hospital trusts in London are
refusing to agree budgets for the
next financial year.
The majority of hospital trusts in
London are refusing to sign their
budgets for the next financial year
in the strongest indication yet of
the cash pressures on the NHS
and the possible scale of cuts to
patient care.
The Times understands that more
than two thirds of the 22 hospital
trusts are refusing to accept the
funding allocated to them by the
primary care trusts that currently
control most of the health service
budget. The concerns in the
capital are seen as a barometer of
pressures that will be felt across
the health service.
Board papers from NHS London
for January show that the hospital
trusts and primary care trusts have
slipped behind their savings target
for the financial year by at least
£70 million. London is expected
to bear some of the toughest cuts
in the coming years with moves to
a system of community-based
care. Some mid-size hospitals are
likely to face mergers or closure,
with a focus on fewer major acute
hospitals.
• T h e F i n a n c i a l
Times(subscription) says the
independent commission on
banking is not expected to
recommend splitting banks into
retail banks and investment banks.
George Osborne, the UK
chancellor, believes that expected
recommendations on restructuring
retail and investment banking
groups by the Independent
Commission on Banking are
"going in the right direction", an
aide insisted on Sunday.
The commission, chaired by Sir
John Vickers, is investigating the
merits of splitting up the big UK
banks into separate retail and
investment banking companies or
forcing those operations to be
capitalised separately. It appears
to favour the latter option, which
is fiercely opposed by the big
banks ...
A belief is growing in the City –
following the Project Merlin
peace accord between the
government and the big UK banks
on pay and lending – that a radical
restructuring, even if
recommended by the commission,
would not be implemented by the
Treasury, but this belief was
described by an Osborne aide as
"wishful thinking".
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• George Parker in the Financial
Times(subscription) says Nick
Clegg does not want tax cuts for
motorists to be the priority in the
budget.
Mr Osborne is being urged by Mr
Clegg, the deputy prime minister,
not to go too far in offering tax
cuts to motorists. He argues that
scarce resources should be
focused on raising the income tax
threshold towards £10,000, a long
-term target in the coalition
agreement.
10.16am: Vince Cable, the
business secretary, is today
promoting a £50m fund to help
businesses develop skills. It will
fund initiatives like training
projects and the extension of
national skills academies. "This
government understands that to
rebalance and grow our economy,
we need to tackle the skills
shortages that hold companies
back," Cable says in a statement
in the Department for Business
news release.
9.30am: You would have thought
that the CBI would welcome the
speech David Cameron gave
yesterday declaring war on "the
enemies of enterprise". But John
Cridland, the CBI's director
general, was guarded when he
was asked about it on the Today
programme this morning. "We've
got to make sure that the action
lives up to the words," he said.
"They've yet to prove themselves.
We're working with them and I
hope they will." Today the CBI is
publishing its own proposals for
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Afghanistan lets Blackwater stay

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clampdown on mercenaries after in Afghanistan. billions of US aid dollars could be to the APPF. "There's no Cartman, the South Park
Hamid Karzai was forced by his Seven companies deemed too threatened by the general's incentive in it for the companies character.
western partners to abandon a closely linked to senior Afghan forthcoming testimony to the US who are being asked to train up In September a US court declared
complete disbandment of private officials have been sent orders to Congress on the security situation these guards and then just hand a mistrial in the case of the two
security companies. disband within 90 days. They in Afghanistan. them all over with all their contractors involved in the 2009
Under plans to be announced by include NCL, which is owned by Karzai had already conceded that equipment," said a manager for a Kabul shooting. A jury
the Afghan government this the son of the defence minister embassies and Nato, which rely large security company. considering claims that the men
month many security contractors, and has interests in a $2.2bn US on private guards to protect "But most of us will keep our jobs were acting in self-defence was
whom Karzai regards as being government transport contract. supply convoys, could continue to as consultants and be simply unable to reach a unanimous
little better than militias, will be Another company, Watan, is use security companies. But rehired ... Most of my clients want verdict.
allowed to continue operating for frantically trying to win a stay of questions remained over to see an expat to keep an eye on That the CIA-connected company
another year. execution by arguing that its development projects, such as things." Blackwater's clean slate remains welcome in Afghanistan,
As part of a complex new owners, the Popal brothers, are road construction, that the US Eyebrows were raised among where it works on huge contracts
transition strategy the government not as closely related to the Karzai regard as essential for winning Kabul's security contractors when to train up the Afghan security
is giving them until 21 March family as widely believed. over ordinary Afghans. it emerged this month that one of forces, is in sharp contrast to Iraq.
2012 before most security for Karzai had previously described Under the new plan companies the most notorious companies in The Iraqi government refused to
development projects is taken the companies as "thieves by day, guarding reconstruction projects the industry was deemed free of renew its operating licence after
over by the Afghan Public terrorists by night". Last August will be able to have 500 of their any offences. Blackwater contractors were
Protection Force. The APPF is a he wanted them all disbanded by own guards, or up to 1,000 if they Out of 52 companies on a list of involved in a notorious 2007
government security service the end of 2010. That decree pay a one-off fine. security providers drawn up by shootout that let 17 civilians dead.
intended to assume control over sparked months of chaos and For contracts requiring more than the Afghan government It prompted the company to
the country's hugely lucrative acrimonious wrangling between that the companies will be Blackwater, or Xe Services as the change its name to Xe Services.
commercial security industry, Karzai and his overseas allies. expected to recruit, train, arm and US company is now known, was • Afghanistan
which employs around 30,000 The foreign ministry refused to pay new APPF guards who will among nine considered to be in • Xe (Blackwater)
guards. issue new visas to foreign guards. then take control of the contract good standing.That is despite a • United States
Western and Afghan officials say " K a r z a i i s d o i n g w h a t t h e after 12 months. 2009 incident when two allegedly • US foreign policy
the draft plans drawn up by Americans are telling him to do If the APPF proves not up to the drunk employees working for a
former Karzai opponent Ashraf because he has no choice," said a job the private company will subsidiary company killed two Jon Boone
G h a n i w i l l a c t u a l l y a l l o w senior western diplomat. "But if continue to be in control, Afghans after opening fire on guardian.co.uk© Guardian News
companies to keep supplying he thought in terms longer than according to the draft proposal. their car. & Media Limited 2011 | Use of
private guards and security just the next 24 hours he would Many officials think that is likely. Most of the other companies this content is subject to our
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boosting growth.
9.13am: This morning the
Guardian has led on a story based
on comments from Dr Mark
Porter, the chairman of the British
Medical Association's hospital
consultants committee. Porter
says Andrew Lansley's health
reforms will take the NHS back to
the 1930s.
Very deliberately the government
wishes to turn back the clock to
the 1930s and 1940s, when there
were private, charitable and co-
operative providers of healthcare.
But that system failed to provide
comprehensive and universal
service for the citizens of this
country. That's why health was
nationalised. But they're
proposing to go back to the days
before the NHS.
Lansley was asked about the
story on Sky this morning.
According to PoliticsHome, the
health secretary said Porter was
"just simply wrong".
I'm afraid Dr Mark Porter in this
respect is just simply wrong. It's
not going to be like that at all, the
commissioning services, GP
groups and their colleagues in the
community commissioning
services will be commissioning
for quality. They will be looking
for where they need services to be
connected up for long term
conditions.
There will not be competition on
Barclays' Jerry Del Missier and Rich Ricci: profiles
(Finance News - Business news
from the UK and world)
price. The private sector can't just
come in and undercut, because it's
actually from the point of view of
patients and for those in the NHS
who are designing services, it's
about delivering quality.
9.01am: Vince Cable, the
business secretary, and Chris
Byrant, the Labour former
Foreign Office minister, have
both been talking about Prince
Andrew this morning. Bryant said
that the prince had been
maintaining relationships with
people who were "very dodgy"
and that the prince should be
dropped as a trade ambassador.
According to PoliticsHome, here
are some of Byrant's comments.
Having a member of the Royal
Family, particularly in some
countries, really opens some
doors that others won't be able to
do. But when that happens it's got
to be someone who's respected,
who, I would suggest in these
days of austerity, doesn't travel in
such extravagant style as the
prince does … All too often
ambassadors have complained
either that he's been phenomenally
rude when he's turned up or that
he's actually set about asking for
time to sell his own home ...
The truth is, we shouldn't be
using him for these delegations
any more ...
I think the charge list now against
him is so long that he's a bit of an
Jerry Del Missier has received worth more than £24m. Here, we
almost £33m in shares this month, take a look at the co-chief
with Rich Ricci handed shares executives of Barclays Capital.
embarrassment and I just can't
imagine the next time it's
proposed that he goes to a foreign
country what the ambassador
would think.
But Cable, in his interviews, said
that the prince was playing a
valuable role as a trade
ambassador.
He has been involved in three of
four activities that I've seen
particular in relation to senior
executives in India, and he's
played a very positive role in that
and made them feel welcome,
give them support and I've
personally got no criticisms of
what he's done. And I think we
need to remember he's doing this
as a volunteer, he's not a
government appointee, he's not
somebody who is appointed and
sacked. And I think the
assessment of businesses I've seen
who've worked with him is he's
been supportive and helpful.
Asked if he had the power to
"sack" the prince from his role,
Cable replied:
As I say he is a volunteer, he has
offered to perform these roles. I
think it's down to him, essentially,
to judge the position he wants to
be in.
8.41am: It's a patchy day. The
future of Prince Andrew as a UK
trade ambassador is dominating
the headlines although, according
to the BBC's Nick Robinson,
Downing Street is now suggesting
that the weekend briefing saying
that the prince is on a yellow card,
and that he will lose his trade
envoy job if he causes any more
embarrassment, went too far. The
cabinet is on its second regional
away-day. And this afternoon
we're due to hear more about the
botched SAS mission to Libya.
Here's a full list:
10.30am: Cabinet minsters arrive
at the Rolls Royce plant in Derby
for an away-day cabinet meeting.
2.30pm: Theresa May, the home
secretary, takes questions in the
Commons.
3.30pm: William Hague, the
foreign secretary, is expected to
make a statement about the MI6
officers and SAS soldiers
captured in Libya.
As usual, I'll be covering all the
breaking political news, as well as
looking at the papers and bringing
you the best politics from the
web. I'll post a lunchtime
summary at around 1pm and an
afternoon one at about 4pm.
Andrew Sparrow
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What's On Tonight: 'The
Event,' 'The Chicago
Code,' 'Good Eats'
Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 6:30:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
Previews Here's what's on TV
tonight (all times Eastern). Check
your local TV listings for the full
schedule.
8PM
ABC:'The Bachelor'
NBC:'The Event'
FOX:'House'
ABC Family:'Pretty Little Liars'
Disney XD:'Zeke & Luther'
8:15
Cartoon Network:'MAD'
After the jump, the rest of the
schedule and the late-night talk
shows.
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Spain lowers speed to cut fuel bill What makes local sites
Giles Tremlett (The Guardian public lighting to low energy the price of commuter train tickets
World News)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:15:31 AM
bulbs and helping town halls hire
consultants to reduce their
in order to persuade more
Spaniards to leave their cars at
hum?
electricity consumption. home and use public transport. (Scripting News) interesting reading.
An army of workers changed Spain's socialist government aims Increased oil prices and a rise in Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:23:23 AM A couple of my favorites, close to
motorway speed signs overnight t o s a v e t h e c o u n t r y f r o m eurozone interest rates could home and a former home are
from 120km/h to 110km/h, as part importing 28.6m barrels of oil a further slow Spain's return to Lately it's dawning on people that NYU Local and Berkeleyside.
of a series of measures designed year – a potential saving of growth, analysts warn. the mass aggregators of local I think the common thing is
to save €2.3bn a year in oil costs €2.3bn (£2bn). The government • Oil information aren't achieving people who care. Who wants to
Spanish drivers have begun said it also hoped to reduce annual • Commodities critical mass among the locals. read local news prepared by
keeping their speed to below 110 CO 2 emissions by 12.5m tonnes. • Oil Outside.in, a site that never made software. I find it interesting to
k m p e r h o u r ( 6 8 m p h ) o n More than 6,000 motorway speed • Energy much sense to me, sold to AOL know what interests people near
motorways after the government limit signs had to be changed • Fossil fuels for $10 million. A lot less money me. I find the idea of an algorithm
made a cut in the speed limit a overnight, with an army of • Petrol prices than the VCs had invested in it. making the choices to be sterile,
key measure in moves to lower workers sticking the new speed • Motoring Anyway, I thought now would be void of nutrients. Unhappy!
Spain's energy bill. limit over the old one. • Spain a good time to remind that in Hey even the curmudgeonly
The controversial 10 km/hr Opposition parties said the • Europe spots around the world and even Berkeley Daily Planet has a pretty
change to the speed limit will reduced speed limit would make in the US, local sites are kicking decent website these days (few
remain in place at least until the little impact on Spain's overall oil Giles Tremlett butt. Here in NYC, we have quite offsite links, but hey that's who
end of June as part of a series of bill. Right-wing commentators guardian.co.uk© Guardian News a few. I keep an aggregator of they are).
m e a s u r e s d e s i g n e d t o c u t claimed the change was mainly & Media Limited 2011 | Use of East Village blogs. Pretty
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Last Comic Standing Finalist Mike DeStefano Dies

Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:01:00 PM
Mike Destefano
Mike DeStefano, a comedian
who became a finalist last year on
Last Comic Standing, has died of
a heart attack, Punchline
Magazine reported.
DeStefano had just finished a run
of shows titled Drugs, Disease
and Death: A Comedy, which was comedy competition show. His Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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Glee's Dalton Academy Warblers to

Release Album in April
Denise Martin (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:27:00 AM

Glee
Blaine and the Dalton Academy
Warblers are releasing a Glee
album of their own in April, a rep
for the show confirms to
TVGuide.com.
Listen to Glee's original songs
"Loser Like Me" and "Get It
Right"
Darren Criss announced the news
on Live with Regis and Kelly
Monday morning.
So far this season, the Warbler's
have sung Katy Perry's "Teenage
Dream," Train's "Hey, Soul
Sister," Destiny Child's "Bills,
Bills, Bills," Robin Thicke's
"When I Get You Alone" and
Wings' "Silly Love Songs."
Upcoming — spoiler alert —
they'll also cover Neon Trees'
"Animal" and Maroon 5's
"Misery." During Regionals,
they'll sing this underdog anthem
by Pink.
The story behind Glee's original
songs (Psst! They're for
Regionals!)
The cover of "Teenage Dream"
by Criss and the Warblers (voiced
by real-life a cappella group the
Beezlebubs from Tufts
University) topped Billboard's
Hot 100 in November, the first
time a Glee recording hit No. 1 on
the chart.
Criss was made a series regular
last year, and will go on tour with
the cast this summer.
"It's fun being a Warbler," Criss,
who also performed "Silly Love
Songs," told the hosts. "It's kind
of like being on our own little
show. Everyone always asks me,
'How's the cast?' and they're
lovely and I love the main kids at
McKinley. But the fact is I
actually spend most of my time
away at another school, like we're
in our own little TV show."
Will you buy an all-Warbler
album?
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Soap News: 'General Hospital' Star

Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo Ready to
Exit and More
Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 7:00:00 AM

Filed under: Reality-Free, TV

News It seems like only yesterday
that Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo
returned to'General Hospital' as
Brenda Barrett, but if her words
are to be taken as fact, her visit is
drawing to a close.
In an interview with 'Access
Hollywood,' Vanessa explained
that she will be leaving GH
shortly ... but is open to come
back for return engagements in
the future.
She didn't actually say she was
leaving, but in answering
questions about her current hot
storyline on GH -- involving
Brenda and Sonny's wedding,
followed by her character's
abduction -- Giovinazzo spoke
about the soap in the past tense.
"After the wedding there is a lot
of drama because my time is
almost done, so we have to figure
out how to pull back," she said. "It
was like going to an incredible
high school reunion. We had so
much fun and I have so much
respect for these people. They
work so hard."
We'll report the "official" word
once ABC Daytime issues a
statement.
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Darren Criss Says Cutting His
'Big Hair' May Have Helped
'Glee' Audition (VIDEO)
Donald Deane (TV Squad) may have helped him land the part
of preppy Blaine.
Submitted at 3/7/2011 6:30:00 AM
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Gallery: Say hello to the Nintendo 3DS

JC Fletcher (Joystiq) obsessively inspected every angle actually turn the thing on. The Nintendo 3DS originally appeared
of the upcoming device yet, we
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Newstablet Edition Products/ 59

Silo 42” 1080p LCD HDTV

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60 Products/ Food/
Consumer Reports finds Zooper Waltz stroller a safety risk
Steven Saltzman (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:59:59 AM
Consumer Reports finds Zooper
Waltz stroller a safety risk
Our most recent tests of
traditional strollers revealed one
model that poses a potential
strangulation hazard--the Zooper
Waltz. We've designated it Don't
Buy: Safety Risk.
Like most traditional, non-
umbrella-style strollers, the
Zooper Waltz has a tray and grab
bar (you can use either) that
attaches above a child's legs. The
problem: if a child is placed in the
stroller unharnessed (something
you should never do), this
stroller's tray and grab bar have a
gap big enough under them to
allow an unharnessed child's
torso, but not the child's head, to
pass. (See video at right, or
here.) This is a strangulation
hazard, known as "submarining,"
that was responsible for at least 10
infant deaths between 1995 and
2008, the latest dates for which
data are available, according to
the Consumer Product Safety
Commission. We do not know of
any injuries specifically
Treats Under 150 Calories
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Sometimes indulging your sweet
tooth with a smart choice saves
you from impulsively diving into
that leftover candy in the break
room. We’ve collected our most
associated with the Zooper Waltz
stroller, which is manufactured in
China by Lan Enterprises LLC.
Reached at the company's U.S.
Headquarters in Beaverton,
Oregon, company representative
David Wang said in a written
statement that the company has
never received a complaint about
a child becoming entrapped in the
Zooper Waltz.
The current voluntary stroller
standard of ASTM-International
(formerly the American Society
for Testing and Materials)
requires that if a space beneath a
stroller's tray/grab bar can permit
a small child's torso to pass
through, it must also be big
enough to allow the child's head
to pass through. Two separate
samples of the Zooper Waltz
failed our test of that standard.
Although the current ASTM
standard is voluntary, the
Consumer Product Safety
Commission must make it a
mandatory rule or "provide for a
stricter safety standard" by August
14, 2011, according to the
Consumer Product Safety
Improvement Act. The Zooper
Waltz does not claim to meet the
voluntary standard on its
delicious sweet treats—cookies,
desserts, bars, and brownies—all
that ring in at 150 calories or less.
Take care to watch for serving
size, stick to that, and you’re
ready to enjoy dessert.
Cookies are usually the culprits
packaging or in its user's manual.
In April 2010, we designated
three other strollers Don't Buy:
Safety Risk models due to a
similar problem--the all-terrain
Valco Baby Tri-Mode and Tike
Tech City X3, and the Tike Tech
X3 Sport jogging stroller. (See
video.) We reported the problem
to both the manufacturers and the
Consumer Product Safety
Commission, and our tests
prompted all three models to be
recalled by their manufacturers in
conjunction with the CPSC last
October. (See the Valco Baby
recall and Tike Tech recalls
notices.)
In his written statement, Wang
said that the company was "very
surprised" to learn of Consumer
Reports' test finding, and that all
Zooper strollers have met "the
U.S. ASTM Standard"--including
the test for passive containment,
for which the Zooper received a
"pass assessment" from an outside
testing laboratory. Consumer
Reports also alerted the CPSC of
our findings, as we had done with
the other strollers mentioned
above.
Asked if Lan Enterprises will
recall the Waltz, Wang stated that
to poor eating choices. Try a
healthier recipe like these
Chocolate-Cherry Cookies and
pack one to go. It’s your own little
100-calorie snack, homemade in
your kitchen (these ring in at just
under 100 calories each).
the CPSC is testing the Zooper
Waltz for the problem that
Consumer Reports uncovered, and
that the company "will fully
cooperate with their decision."
When we asked the CPSC
whether they plan to test the
Zooper Waltz for the problem
Consumer Reports identified,
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CPSC is aware of what we're
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said that if a retroactive fix to the
Zooper Waltz is warranted, the
company will provide that fix to
current owners of the stroller.
Finally, Wang noted that because
this issue has arisen, "We will
examine the overall design and
make any necessary
modification."
The Waltz's passive containment
issue is separate from the one that
caused the August 2010 recall of
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Paul Eng (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:32:02 AM
Distracted driving: DOT and CR
join to educate the public
One in five traffic accidents in
2009 was related to distracted
driving—drivers that are too busy
talking or texting on their cell
phones. And over 5,000 traffic
fatalities can be linked to
distracted drivers.
Those are just some of the
sobering facts that were released
today by Ray LaHood, secretary
of the U.S. Department of
Transportation at a press
conference, held in conjunction
with Consumer Reports.
The conference (streamed live on
the Web) kicks off a national
campaign to educate the public
about distracted driving, which
included a DOT website (
Distraction.gov) where people
recount how they lost loved ones
to distracted driving.
"Twenty years ago, we [DOT]
started the 'Click it or ticket'
seatbelt campaign," LaHood said.
"Today, 85 percent of people now
use their seat belts because they
know if they don't, they run the
risk of being fined. Ten years
from now, that's where we want to
be: That people will be putting
their texting device in their glove
boxes rather than use them while
driving."
You can watch the web
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information regarding car and
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Ben Popken (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:00:00 PM
Plans are in the works to
dismantle Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, and that could mean
that what many Americans had
assumed came fourth after "life,
liberty and the pursuit of
happiness," the 30-year mortgage,
could be on the outs.
Without the government-
provided backstop of the
American Dream, costs are going
to rise for borrowers. Many
investors are no longer willing to
make such a long-term bet as the
30-year mortgage and would
rather loans with adjustable rates.
This might sound odd but n other
countries, 30-year mortgages are
not the norm. They only became
widespread in America after
Congress passed an act in 1954.
Besides the term of loans coming
into question, we might also see
being able to "lock in" a rate
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becoming a luxury. Lenders used
to be able to make that promise
thanks to Fannie and Freddie
because they had already gotten
investors to buy in. But without
the two big F's, locking in a rate
might become something that
homeowners have to pay extra to
get. Or, that option might be only
available to the best-qualified
borrowers.
The question is, are Americans
really ready to pay the price for
cutting down on moral hazard in
the mortgage market?
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Open and shut case: Winter rough on
garage door openers
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Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:09:20 AM
Open and shut case: Winter
rough on garage door openers
Last week, the Consumer Reports
Home & Garden blog brought you
the top five house problems
caused by winter weather. This
morning, a colleague stopped by
with grease-smudged hands to
remind us of another—faulty
garage door openers. If you have
an automatic garage door, its
system of springs, cables,
brackets, and other hardware
might not be functioning properly
after months of freezing
temperatures. You should inspect
those moving parts before warmer
weather brings increased traffic in
Choose your carrier advisedly for the 3G Apple iPad 2
Carol Mangis (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:10:42 AM
Choose your carrier advisedly for
the 3G Apple iPad 2 Apple iPad 2
Photo: courtesy of Apple
When Apple's Steve Jobs
unveiled the iPad 2 tablet last
week, he mentioned that—unlike
the first AT&T-only iPad—the
and out of the garage.
Start by checking that the door is
balanced by releasing it into the
manual mode. The door should
lift easily and smoothly by hand
and it should stay open on its own
about 3 feet off the ground. If it
doesn’t, its overhead spring
probably needs to be
counterbalanced. Because springs
are under extreme tension, this fix
should be handled by a garage-
door technician.
3G version would be available
with a choice of networks: AT&T
or Verizon. The statement was a
little vague and open to
interpretation, though: Some
observers thought that the device
might be carrier-agnostic, at least
between those two. Unhappy with
AT&T? Switch to Verizon, or When you purchase an iPad 2,
vice versa.
Just to clarify, that's not the case.
Next, check the door's reversing
safety feature. Set the opener’s
reversing force as low as possible
and place a 2x4 board on the
ground under the door, wide side
down. The door should pop back
up when it hits the 2x4. If it
doesn’t, call the pro. Finally, test
the door's photoelectric eyes by
holding the 2x4 between them.
The door should reverse direction.
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Tealy & Orangey is… well, it's
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either. Tealy & Orangey is fun!
You're the ball. You're both balls.
One's in Teal Heaven and the
other is in Orange Hell. We aren't
judging their past, we're just
pointing out that they both have to
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Tealy has to make leaps that
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Since they both need to be
controlled at the same time,
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But on the whole, Tealy &
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Texas Tech Red Raiders fire Pat Knight as basketball coach

Associated Press (ESPN.com) return a call seeking comment prepared statement. "I wish him At the beginning of the season, things I'm most proud of that I've
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:50:04 AM Monday, seemed to know he success and the best moving with six seniors on his squad, done: I went to Indiana and
might be dismissed in comments forward." Knight said he didn't deserve a played at Indiana, for my dad.
Updated: March 7, 2011, 12:50 about the Red Raiders program Knight played under his father at contract extension if he did not And I took over for him here. So
PM ET following a 71-68 home loss to Indiana University from 1991-95 get the team to the NCAA people can write and say whatever
LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech Colorado on Feb. 23. and later worked as a scout for the tournament. Going into the league they want about me but the one
fired Pat Knight on Monday, "We've lost seven games in the Phoenix Suns. He was an assistant tournament, Texas Tech is 13-18 thing they can't say is that I ever
ending a disappointing three-year last minute," he said. "This for the CBA's Connecticut Pride overall and 5-11 in the Big 12. took the safe or easy way out."
run for a coach who failed to lead program is competitive. But that's and was a coach in both the Knight's team won just three Big Copyright 2011 by The
the Red Raiders to the NCAA not for me. I mean, honestly, I'm International Basketball 12 regular season games in 2008- Associated Press
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third full year as head coach. He said it was time for a change. but the success didn't come as In his comments Feb. 23, Knight Guardian's Economics Editor.
had only one winning season (19- "I appreciate everything Pat has easily for Pat Knight. The Red said he's never shied away from
16 in 2009-10) at Texas Tech done for our university, not only Raiders got to the quarterfinals of his famous pedigree.
after taking over for Bob Knight a s a h e a d c o a c h , b u t a l s o the NIT last season, losing at "I'd have been smart if I'd just
at midseason in February 2008. throughout his career as an Mississippi 90-87 in double played baseball and never got into
Knight, who did not immediately assistant," Bailey said in a overtime. coaching," he said. "The two
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bridged halftime to claim the Georgia and will face Arkansas in Vols retired Houston's No. 20 at David Hinkle (Joystiq)
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aged coach John Calipari a bit. Getting swept by Kentucky is which tied the score at 29-29 with Tennessee, which finished the platformer follow-up due to
His young Wildcats did some disappointing," Tennessee coach 18:15 to play. season with eight home losses for launch in April, FatShark brand
maturing of their own in the Bruce Pearl said. "I do feel it's a "Right before we stepped onto the the first time since 1994-95. manager Gunnar Johansson
second half. benchmark I should be judged on, court (after halftime) we all Hopson, who had averaged 24 revealed that the title would
No. 20 Kentucky survived poor and I obviously have not done my huddled up and said we are really points in his last five games launch at a $9.99 price point on
shooting and weak rebounding job in our rivalry with Kentucky." going to put in a 110 (percent) against Kentucky, finished with both the PC and PSN platforms.
before halftime to beat Tennessee Knight, who played all 40 effort and just play our best," 13, though nine of his points were Of course, FatShark wants to see
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Braylon Edwards of
Pat Knight fired at Texas Tech - Chicago Sun- New York Jets seeking
dismissal of drunken-
Times driving charges
Jane McManus (ESPN.com)
(- Bing News) following a 71-68 home loss to coach in both the International reprimand and a one-game
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:45:00 AM Colorado on Feb. 23. Basketball Association and the suspension. Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:31:39 AM
“We’ve lost seven games in the U.S. Basketball League. Last season, the Red Raiders won
Pat Knight fired at Texas Tech last minute,” he said. “This Pat Knight was also at Indiana just four regular season Updated: March 7, 2011, 12:31
By BETSY BLANEY Associated program is competitive. But that’s and at Akron University before conference games. PM ET By Jane McManus
Press Mar 7, 2011 12:14PM not for me. I mean, honestly, I’m joining his father as an assistant at In his comments Feb. 23, Knight ESPNNewYork.com
LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas going to be coaching here, I’m Texas Tech in 2001. said he’s never shied away from Archive
Tech fired Pat Knight on Monday, going to be coaching somewhere The elder Knight took the Red his famous pedigree. NEW YORK -- On the day New
ending a disappointing three-year else. I’ve proven I can coach. I Raiders to the NCAA tournament, “I’d have been smart if I’d just York Jets wide receiver Braylon
run for a coach who failed to lead run a clean program, I don’t cheat, but the success didn’t come as played baseball and never got into Edwards was in a Manhattan
the Red Raiders to the NCAA my players graduate and we have easily for Pat Knight. The Red coaching,” he said. “The two courtroom trying to get his
tournament after taking over for discipline. So if you don’t want Raiders got to the quarterfinals of things I’m most proud of that I’ve drunken-driving case thrown out,
his famous father. me here there’s going to be the NIT last season, losing at done: I went to Indiana and he said he wants to stay with the
Knight will coach the Red someone else that wants me.” Mississippi 90-87 in double played at Indiana, for my dad. Jets.
Raiders at this week’s Big 12 Texas Tech president Guy Bailey overtime. And I took over for him here. So His attorney, Peter J. Frankel,
tournament and then step down, said it was time for a change. At the beginning of the season, people can write and say whatever was going to file motions Monday
school spokesman Blayne Beal “I appreciate everything Pat has with six seniors on his squad, they want about me but the one to suppress the field sobriety test
said. done for our university, not only Knight said he didn’t deserve a thing they can’t say is that I ever from Edwards' DUI arrest on
Knight is 50-60 in his first a s a h e a d c o a c h , b u t a l s o contract extension if he did not took the safe or easy way out.” Sept. 21.
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Soda Bread Biscuits "He understands that it's a very

(Simply Recipes)
Submitted at 3/6/2011 6:57:42 PM
Biscuits? Muffins? What should I
call these mini-soda breads?
Biscuits(American not English)
typically aren't sweet, muffins
typically are. These are as sweet
as you want them to be, they look
like biscuits, you can eat them
like biscuits, but you make them
in a muffin tin.
I've been struggling with this
question for days. It's been a
good excuse to continue taste
testing my way through the FIVE
important time in his life and he
wants to get through this the best
What I can tell you is that they
way he can," Frankel said. "He's
are very good, and that the recipe
doing all the right things."
is wonderfully flexible.
Edwards is due back in court on
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Biscuits" »
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DOZEN I've made in order to
perfect the recipe. BRAYLON page 68
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said he felt "the interest is there"
among Jets officials in keeping
him on the team. And he added:
"And, one more time, I love being
a Jet."
He said he has been in contact
with both general manager Mike
Tannenbaum and coach Rex
Ryan.
"Just catching up moreso, wasn't
anything about football," Edwards
said. "The interest is there on their
side. The interest is there on my
side we just got to put it together
and see what happens."
In September, Edwards was
assessed by police to have a blood
alcohol level that was roughly
twice the legal limit, from breath
tests administered both at the
scene of the arrest and later when
he was taken into custody.
Frankel has already filed to
suppress the second test in the
event of a trial and will file a
motion to suppress the first in the
next few weeks.
Edwards was already on
probation because of a dust-up in
Cleveland when New York police
said they pulled him over in
September because his luxury
SUV's windows were too dark.
Officers said his blood-alcohol
level was twice the legal limit.
He denies driving drunk. He's
challenging the basis for stopping
him, the reliability of the test and
other aspects of the case.
Prosecutors say his arrest was
lawful, the test was fine and
there's enough evidence to support
the charges. The most serious is a
misdemeanor.
If Edwards is found guilty of the
DUI, he could be compelled to
return to Cleveland and face six
months in jail for violating the
terms of his probation there.
Frankel said he is having ongoing
discussions with the district
attorney's department about the
possibility of a plea bargain, but
that no offer has been made.
Jane McManus is a reporter and
c o l u m n i s t f o r
ESPNNewYork.com. Information
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Studios' long-awaited IP. He said
Curt Schilling and company KINGDOMS page 69
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that we'd see "combat that keeps
you doing combat" along with a
"deep quest narrative" and old-
school RPG tropes brought
around to match up with action
gamer tendencies. "I don't know a
way to tell you," Schilling said at
the time, that "'Hey, we're taking
God of War and marrying it with
Oblivion.'"
That's a tall order, made even
taller by 38 Studios' origins --
while there are a lot of veterans
working on this game, this is the
first time they've all worked
together, and certainly there's
enough pressure and hype on the
project that it seems like it could
very well fall apart in disasterous
fashion.
And then we saw the game
running in full motion for the first
time this week here at GDC 2011.
Sure, it's only an hour of directed
gameplay, and sure, there's lots of
work yet to do on the title. But
there's this: All of Schilling's
promises were up there on the
screen, and it seems more likely
than ever that 38 Studios might
just pull this off.
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Poll: Christie Tied With Obama as
'Hottest' Leader
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) heat, but it does reflect how voters government workers.
Submitted at 3/7/2011 5:36:09 AM feel about national figures, Christie, 48, has campaigned for
including politicians.” Republicans in other states and
Monday, 07 Mar 2011 11:36 AM Kevin Roberts, Christie’s has been asked repeatedly about
Chris Christie, New Jersey’s first spokesman, declined to comment presidential ambitions. He has
-term governor, is essentially tied today in an e-mail. said he isn’t ready for the job.
with President Barack Obama as The poll asked voters to rate Christie beat several other
the “hottest” sitting U.S. politician sentiments toward 23 public possible Republican challengers
in a Quinnipiac University figures, including politicians. in today’s national poll, including
“national thermometer” reading. Respondents rated leaders 0 to former House Speaker Newt
The poll, released today, finds 1 0 0 d e g r e e s o n a “ f e e l i n g Gingrich, former Massachusetts
one group gives the two sharply thermometer.” The higher the Gov. Mitt Romney, and
different rankings: women feel far number, the warmer or more Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
more warmly about the president favorable a person said they felt Sarah Palin, a Fox News
than the Republican governor, toward that person; the lower the commentator and possible
who has become a provocative number, the colder or less Republican presidential candidate,
figure on YouTube videos where favorable. was 21st on the list at 38.2
he is seen battling with teachers Thirty-five percent of women in degrees. Former House Speaker
and other union members over t h e p o l l g a v e O b a m a a Nancy Pelosi, a California
their pay and benefits. temperature rating between 81 Democrat, was last at 32.9.
Christie received an overall degrees and 100 degrees, the Researchers at Hamden, Conn.-
rating of 57 degrees, while Obama warmest; Only 7 percent of based Quinnipiac surveyed 1,887
scored 56.5. The poll had a w o m e n g a v e t h a t s a m e registered voters from Feb. 21-28
margin of error of plus or minus t e m p e r a t u r e t o C h r i s t i e . for the poll. Fifty-five percent of
2.3 percentage points. In a Christie’s approval at home also those surveyed said they didn’t
N a t i o n a l R e v i e w i n t e r v i e w is lower among women. In a Feb. know enough about Christie to
published March 2, Christie said 9 Quinnipiac poll of New Jersey rate him.
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70 Politics/
Lack of a GOP Front-Runner for 2012 at Odds With
Republican History
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:51:00 AM
Contributing Editor Although the
contest for the GOP presidential
nomination may seem far away
(for all except those gearing up
for it), there has been a lot of
comment about the potential
Republican field, ranging from
those who regard it as weak to the
fact that no one has emerged yet
as a front-runner, at least
according to polls.
Gallup says that situation is not
typical. In reviewing its polling
dating back to 1952, Gallup notes
that in every presidential year up
until now, there was a clear front-
runner at this stage of the
campaign and that, in most but
not all cases, the front-runner won
the nomination.
There have been a few twists and
turns in that general pattern. It
may have faded from memory
now, but in 2007, Rudolph
Giuliani was way out in front in
Republican preference polls,
leading John McCain by 42
percent to 25 percent in February
of that year, with the remainder of
support spread among other
candidates or undecided. Giuliani
faded fast after making the
mistake of skipping the early
primary states, and McCain, who
had been the presumed front-
runner aside from the 2007 poll,
got a scare when Mike Huckabee
went from a blip on pollsters'
radar screens to winning the Iowa
caucuses. In February 1963, New
York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
was the clear favorite, leading
Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater by
45 percent to 19 percent.
However, Goldwater steadily
crept up on Rockefeller and then
passed him, and when former
Massachusetts Sen. Henry Cabot
Lodge entered the race, the three
candidates were in a statistical tie
in Gallup's last poll before the
GOP convention. Goldwater
emerged as the nominee.
As far as the current field of
Republicans is concerned, the top
four in Republican preference
polls have consistently been
Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Sarah
Palin and Newt Gingrich. None
has formally launched a
campaign, although Gingrich --
who usually runs last in that group
-- has come the closest. Last
week, he filed paperwork with the
Internal Revenue Service to
explore a possible candidacy and
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voters who didn't know enough
about them to express a pro or con
opinion. These included former
ambassador to China Jon
Huntsman (84 percent don't know
him); Gov. Mitch Daniels of
Indiana (78 percent); Pawlenty
(67 percent); Gov. Haley Barbour
of Mississippi (65 percent); and
former Sen. Rick Santorum of
Pennsylvania (63 percent).
"History thus provides no
guidelines for how today's highly
fragmented Republican race
might play out, or for when a
strong front-runner is likely to
emerge, or who it will be," Gallup
said. "If the race remains close
throughout 2011, it may also
create unfamiliar political and
fundraising dynamics for the
national party."
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What's Happening to Glenn Beck? Palin’s Parents Fear for

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) establish a worldwide caliphate.
Submitted at 3/7/2011 6:47:59 AM He’s also concerned some with
rants about billionaire financier
Family’s Lives
After one of the most amazing George Soros and an alleged (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
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Fox News host Glenn Beck may believe veers dangerously close to
be facing a backlash among anti-Semitism. Beck recently Monday, 07 Mar 2011 01:13 PM
establishment Republicans and apologized to Reform Jewish By Dan Weil
growing concern at his own Monday’s Times. leaders after likening their liberal Former Alaska Gov. Sarah
network that he’s no longer a On the record, though, Fox News p o s i t i o n s t o I s l a m i c Palin’s willingness to speak her
franchise player, according to The defends Beck as one of the most f u n d a m e n t a l i s t s . mind has triggered death threats
New York Times. The most important commentators today. “He used to be a lot funnier,” toward her and her family from
tangible proof is that he’s lost Joel Cheatwood, the senior vice David Von Drehle, who wrote the some unbalanced individuals. And
nearly a third of his viewers since president of development for Fox Time magazine article on Beck, understandably enough, that has
peaking with his rallies last year News, downplays that viewers are told the Times. “He was the her parents worried, Politico
in Washington, D.C. growing tired of watching Beck b e f u d d l e d e v e r y m a n a n d reports.
Though he still by far brings in a given his ratings, but admits something entirely new, but the The parents, Chuck and Sally
huge number of viewers for a 5 keeping the show upbeat is a longer people have listened to his Heath, told the BBC that the Palin
p . m . s h o w , F o x o f f i c i a l s major priority. ranting and raving, the wearier family has received many death
apparently are concerned that his "We have talked about that, at his they become. Now you are just threats since the former vice guns,” he said.
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N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue Vetoes Challenge to

Health Care Reform Bill
Mary C. Curtis (Politics Daily) Campaign and the N.C. Center for
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:45:00 AM Voter Education showed her 2008
opponent, former Charlotte Mayor
National Correspondent North Pat McCrory, leading Perdue by a
Carolina won't be joining the list 51-to-38 percent margin.
of states challenging federal Perdue has been visible as
health care reform legislation -- Charlotte prepares to host the
not yet, anyway. Over the 2012 Democratic National
weekend, Gov. Bev Perdue, a Convention. Last week, she joined
Democrat, vetoed legislation U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray
passed by the GOP-controlled LaHood, Sen. Kay Hagan and
state legislature that challenges a other officials at the Charlotte
provision that would require the Chamber for a discussion with
purchase of health insurance. city and state business leaders.
In a statement, Perdue called the LaHood offered support for a new
house bill "an ill-conceived piece air-traffic tower and federal
of legislation that's not good for could hurt state programs, such as midterm elections, must now funding for rail projects.
the people of North Carolina." Medicaid and children's health decide if they will try to override Click here to follow Mary C.
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Denies
Allegations of Illicit Payments
During Campaign
Christopher Weber (Politics
Daily)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:31:00 AM
Correspondent Vincent Gray,
mayor of Washington, D.C., is
denying allegations by a former
mayoral candidate -- and later an
administration employee -- who
says he was paid to ramp up
attacks on then-mayor Adrian
Fenty during last year's campaign.
At a weekend press conference,
however, the mayor
acknowledged his administration
"made missteps" in the way it
vetted candidates for jobs, The
Washington Post reported
Monday.
"We have taken steps to address
those missteps," Gray said
Sunday, without providing details.
The allegations come from
Sulaimon Brown, who was hired
at the city's Department of Health
Care Finance after the campaign.
He was on the job -- which he
alleges was part of his reward for
the attacks -- just a month before
he was fired.
Brown says he was given a series
of payments by Lorraine Green,
Gray's campaign chair and
adviser, and campaign consultant
Howard Brooks between June 24
and the Sept. 14 Democratic
primary, according to the Post.
"We met at Union Station, out
front. The initial payment was in
cash, in a plain white envelope,"
Brown told Washington's WTTG-
TV.
Green and Brooks have denied
the allegations that they paid
Brown to continue his attacks
against Fenty.
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Video: Japan's New
Goateed Geminoid Robot
Is Uncomfortably Realistic
Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science (if you consider a goatee a beard,
- New Technology, Science which in my full-bearded opinion
News, The Future Now)
is debatable).
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:52:43 AM Like its Geminoid siblings, the
Geminoid DK Geminoid DK is controlled remotely with a
The latest Geminoid robot is one motion-capture system in which
of the most realistic, and thus t h e G e m i n o i d m i m i c s t h e
creepiest, android we've ever movements of the person being
seen. The skin, hair, goatee (!), captured. Future uses are kind of
and facial expressions are real secondary to the basic goal of
enough to fool you for a few making the most human-like robot
seconds while it sinks in that possible, but it could be a step
something very, very weird is f o r w a r d f o r h u m a n - r o b o t
going on. interaction--paired with, say,
This specific model is called the Watson's brain, the Geminoid
Geminoid DK, and it comes from series could be used in some
the same studio that gave us the pretty interesting ways. That
robotic actress, Geminoid F. The being said, here's a terrifying
DK is the first Geminoid model picture of the Geminoid's skin-
that's based on a non-Japanese less skull.
person (in this case, Associate [ IEEE Spectrum]
Professor Henrik Scharfe of
Denmark's Aalborg University)
and also the first bearded model
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Our Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Interplay
Between Man and Microbe
Virginia Hughes (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:00:00 AM
Studying our natural internal
bacteria could help doctors cure
diseases that affect millions
When Jake Harvey visits the
clinical center at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda,
Maryland, he is usually dirty,
itchy and wheezing-not the
happiest state of affairs for a 14-
year-old boy. But his doctors
require that for 24 hours prior to
each visit, he refrain from
bathing, or using the inhaler that
soothes his asthma, or applying
the ointment that softens his
eczema. In order to study his
illness, they need him to be in as
close to his natural state as
possible.
Jake's discomfort could lead to
better treatments for the millions
who have eczema-a disorder
marked by dry red rashes in the
creases of elbows, behind knees
and on the back of necks-as well
as an array of other allergic
reactions. By understanding
eczema in a new way, as the
product of a delicate interaction
between the immune system and
the legion of bacteria that live on
the skin, one group of scientists
hopes to better understand what
triggers it and why the number of
diagnosed eczema cases in
developed countries has
dramatically increased over the
past few decades.
These researchers, led by Heidi
Kong, a dermatologist at the
Center for Cancer Research at the
National Cancer Institute and
Julie Segre, a geneticist at the
NIH, are just one part of the five-
year, $173-million Human
Microbiome Project (HMP), an
effort to characterize the
thousands of species of microbes
that live on or in us. So far, Jake
has made half a dozen trips to
Bethesda, 60 miles each way, to
donate a few skin cells to the
project.
Jake has been struggling with
eczema since he was a few
months old. The rash never stops
itching, and when he scratches, it
bleeds and scabs and gets even
itchier. His clothes stick to the
sores. He has tried many
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never really gotten a full night's
sleep," he says.
As many as 30 percent of all
children develop eczema, and no
one knows what mix of genetic
and environmental factors sets it
off. The disease runs in families,
yet Jake's twin sister, Becca, has
perfect skin. For about 60 percent
of children with the disease, it
goes away by early adolescence.
The others frequently deal with
outbreaks for life.
Whether the rash disappears or
not, nearly one third of children
with eczema go on, like Jake, to
develop asthma and hay fever.
Asthma and hay fever also
involve inflammation, but very
little is known about what quirk of
the immune system links them all
together. "We've been to
pediatricians, allergists,
dermatologists for years," says
Jake's mother, Debbie, "and
nobody can figure him out."
The average human body is made
up of trillions of cells. The
average human body also houses
about 10 times that number of
treatments, including petroleum
bacterial cells. Scientists have
jelly, topical steroids, antibiotics,
been curious about our bacterial
and also dairy-free, gluten-free
cohabitants since 1683, when
and probiotic diets. None of them
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, using
has worked very well. When he
a microscope he had built himself,
was younger, he went to school
examined his own dental plaque
with bandages on the tips of his
only to discover "little living
fingers and slept with socks over
animacules, very prettily a-
his hands. In bed, he still
moving." But it has been only
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both legs sticking straight up so OUR page 75
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within the past few decades that
scientists have begun to
understand just how many
varieties of bacteria live in or on
our bodies. And now they
increasingly suspect that many
diseases are caused not by
individual bacteria, but by the
delicate interplay between
multiple bacterial species and the
human host.
Oily: The scalp, upper back and
crease of the nose all have an
abundance of oil-producing
sebaceous glands. Oily regions
tend to have less bacterial
diversity than other regions.
Howard Schatz
In the Human Microbiome
Project, researchers plan to
characterize the vast numbers of
bacteria, fungi, protozoa and
viruses in our body by sequencing
their genes. That won't be easy. In
the past, researchers had to grow
each species outside the body
before they could identify it, a
process that required intense
research to determine optimum
growing conditions. Only the
hardiest and most numerous
bacterial species-for example,
Staphylococcus aureus and
Streptococcus pyogenes, which
can cause life-threatening
infections-have been thoroughly
studied in the laboratory. Now,
advances in DNA sequencing-the
very same that made it possible
for the Human Genome Project to
decode the three billion base pairs
of our own genome quickly-have
provided the technology to make
a comprehensive Human
Microbiome Project possible.
"What we want to understand
first," says Human Microbiome
Project coordinator Lita Proctor,
"is what's considered the norm.
What does a typical healthy
human have?" HMP researchers
are building a reference database
of the genetic fingerprints of
about 3,000 different bacterial
species. Scientists are also
thoroughly characterizing the
makeup of microbial communities
found on half a dozen body sites-
including the gut, the mouth, the
skin and the groin-of 300 normal
people. The next step is to
compare those results with what
researchers find in patients with
specific medical conditions such
as eczema, Crohn's disease and
ulcerative colitis.
The skin samples from Jake and
other children with eczema will
help Segre and Kong determine
whether changing profiles of skin
flora, and its interaction with the
human immune system, are
involved in the rising rates of the
disease. Some 34.1 million
Americans suffer from asthma,
and up to 50 million have
seasonal allergies.
"In the last three decades, all of
these allergic disorders-asthma,
eczema, hay fever-they've all
tripled," Segre says. With that
short of a time frame, the culprit
can't be simply changes in our
own genome. "So it must be
something about the gene-
environment interaction. And I
now believe that that's modulated
by the body's bacteria."
The first part of the exam is like
any other doctor's visit, Jake says.
Sitting on a stool next to him,
Kong asks a series of questions.
Which medications are you
currently taking? Does your
school use antibacterial soaps?
How bad are your allergies this
month? On a diagram of a body,
she notes all the spots where
Jake's rash has croppedup that
day. Then she pulls on a pair of
blue examination gloves and turns
to a tray containing a row of
sterile swabs and scalpels. The
swabbing comes first. Jake
stretches out his right arm, palm
up, and Kong firmly rubs a wet
foam swab in a circular motion in
the crook of his elbow; the sterile
water solution stings when it hits
his open sores. Kong places the
tip of the swab into a plastic tube
filled with the same liquid and
places the tube in a bucket of dry
ice. Then comes the scalpel. Kong
moistens the blade and gently
scrapes some skin from a spot
next to the area she swabbed. She
wipes the flakes from the blade
with another swab and drops the
tip into another plastic tube. Kong
repeats the procedure on each
elbow, each inner forearm, the
back of each knee, and finally a
swab in one of his nostrils. Once
the sampling is over, she and her
colleagues take pictures of Jake's
rash. Then they check his vital
signs.
Jake doesn't know much about
what happens to his skin cells
once they disappear into the lab.
For the most part, he comes to the
clinic, which he found because he
was enrolled in an NIH study on
asthma, for Kong's helpful advice
about his eczema. (She
recommended that he take diluted
bleach baths during bad flares,
which has given him some relief.)
But he says he's proud to be part
of the effort to understand this
disease, in case his future children
end up with the same troubles.
Moist: Inside the nose, between
the fingers and toes, and the heel--
these areas of skin and folds
contain many sweat glands.
Eczema flares are sometimes
found in moist skin areas. Howard
Schatz
Jake's skin samples, like those
from the more than 20 other
children participating in the study,
wind up in a nearby laboratory
complex, where they are stored in
a large freezer set at -112oF. The
inside of the door is lined with
thick white snow. Clay Deming, a
biologist at the lab, explained to
me how he prepares each sample.
He selects a tube and defrosts it;
adds lysozyme, an enzyme that
breaks down bacterial cell walls;
and shakes the concoction using a
vortex mixer. This releases DNA
from the bacterial cells so that it
floats freely in the liquid. He then
pours the solution over a gel filter,
designed so that just bacterial
DNA fragments will stick to it.
With the DNA fragments thus
separated, Deming can use a
technique called polymerase chain
reaction to make millions of
copies of one particular bacterial
gene: 16S. All bacteria carry the
gene, but its DNA sequence varies
from species to species. After
amplifying the DNA fragments,
Deming is left with a new set of
75
tubes, each holding the 16S pieces
harvested from a particular area of
the participant's skin.
He puts the tubes on ice in order
to FedEx them to a building five
miles north, the NIH Intramural
Sequencing Center. There,
machines read the precise
sequence of 1,500-odd letters in
each 16S fragment, giving the
chemical signature of each
species. Finally, technicians
upload the sequence data to an
internal network, ready to be
mined by Segre and Kong.
The skin is an ecosystem. Like
any other ecosystem, it harbors
permanent residents and also
migrant species that flock to a few
hotspots during certain seasons.
Those fluctuations powerfully
influence how the skin works.
Staphylococcus epidermidis, for
example, may help educate the
skin's immune system, training it
to recognize particular molecules
so that it can better respond to an
attack by harmful species. S.
epidermidis churns out proteins
that prevent unwanted invaders
from adhering to skin. So it makes
sense that disrupting these
complex microbial interactions
could lead to skin problems.
With the eczema study, Segre
says she hopes to find patterns in
the microbiome that could predict
the onset of an eczema flare in a
particular child, or even help
doctors choose a far more
effective treatment; for some
patients, bleach baths might help,
whereas for others, a round of anti
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-inflammatory steroids might be
the best choice.
Kong and Segre are not the only
scientists looking into the
connection between the
microbiome and inflammatory
skin conditions. Martin Blaser, a
microbiologist and physician at
New York University, thinks the
microbiome also plays a role in
psoriasis. Some 25 years ago,
Blaser's father had told him that
his psoriasis-scaly red-and-white
patches on the skin-seemed to get
better after he started taking
allopurinol, a medicine that treats
gout. Blaser, who has mild
psoriasis himself, took notice. He
knew that because allopurinol
interferes with the synthesis of
DNA, it kills bacteria or makes it
very difficult for those bacteria to
grow.
His father's experience spurred
Blaser to look deeper into the
connection between allopurinol
and microbes. He discovered that
a few decades earlier, researchers
had run clinical trials on
allopurinol as a treatment for
psoriasis. The results were
inconclusive, but Blaser thought
that the medicine might work on a
particular subgroup of psoriasis
patients.
In 2002, he finally secured
funding to study the microbiomes
of psoriasis patients. For the
project, Blaser performed a
general census of bacteria living
on the inner forearms of six
healthy people. Later his group
did the same analysis on skin
from six people with psoriasis,
and they found some striking
differences. The six psoriasis
patients had considerably more
bacteria from the Firmicutes
phylum than people without
psoriasis. What's more, the most
common class of bacteria in
healthy skin, Actinobacteria, was
significantly underrepresented in
the lesions.
"Those results, which were
important at the time, now are
kind of laughable because they're
on such a small scale," Blaser
says. Now, with funding from the
Human Microbiome Project, his
team is looking in much greater
detail at how the overall microbial
numbers, as well as changes in the
species distribution, vary in
patients with psoriasis.
In May 2009, Kong, Segre and
their colleagues published the first
comprehensive catalog of skin
microbes, based on samples taken
from 20 different body parts-from
the oily crease outside the nose to
the moist spots between the
fingers-of 10 healthy people. By
sequencing hundreds of the 16S
genes in each sample, the
researchers found that our
epidermal ecosystem is much
more diverse than anybody
thought, with discrete bacterial
populations ranging in size from
15 species behind the ear to 44 on
the forearm. The team also looked
at whether the microbiome is
consistent across individuals; that
is, do some individuals always
have a certain set of bacterial
species, no matter what part of the
body those bacteria live in?
The researchers learned that, no,
the bacteria are finely tailored to
specific locations on the body,
rather than to individual humans.
For example, the bacterial
communities under your arm are
more similar to those under
someone else's arm than to those
behind your knee.
Dry: The forearms and buttocks
have a relative paucity of sweat
and sebaceous glands. Bacteria
from dry skin sites are typically
the hardest to grow in culture.
Howard Schatz
Jake is allergic to many things-
mold, peanut butter, dogs, cats-
and his asthma is severe. In 2009
he almost died because he
couldn't breathe. "The scary thing
was, within seconds, he was in
respiratory and cardiac arrest," his
mother recalls. "No warning. No
lip swelling or dizziness or mouth
burning. He just went down."
Eczema's strong link to allergies
suggests that the immune system
is key to the development of the
disease, and researchers have
focused on inflammation for
decades. So how does the skin
microbiome fit into this picture?
In 2006, a coalition of researchers
from the U.S., France, Ireland and
the U.K. discovered that up to half
of people with eczema have
mutations in filaggrin, a protein in
the skin barrier, or top layers of
the skin. Now some researchers
suspect that this flaw in the skin
barrier allows entry to particles
that trigger the immune response
and creates an ecological niche
for a different set of microbes.
To uncover any link between the
skin barrier and microbes, Kong
and Segre are sampling Jake and
other children with eczema at
three points: during a normal, or
baseline, period; during a flare;
and two weeks after treatment. In
a preliminary analysis of data
from 10 patients, Kong and Segre
have confirmed older studies
showing that there are huge
amounts of S. aureus on the skin
during a flare. What wasn't known
before, however, is that S. aureus
crowds out the other bacterial
species during a flare. Kong and
Segre are trying to figure out how
treating these patients changes
their bacterial diversity and leads
to better individual results.
Segre doesn't know whether
bacteria associated with eczema
are the cause of the disease or
simply a consequence of living
with it. To find out, she plans to
perform a metagenomic analysis
of the samples. During a
metagenomic analysis, scientists
compare thousands of genes
present in a particular species's
DNA. By looking at the biological
function of the genes-what kinds
of proteins they make and what
kinds of biological pathways
those proteins are involved in-the
scientists can make educated
guesses about the role of each
species, and how different species
may work with one another and
with our own genome.
"We all believe there's an
interdependency among these
organisms. They're highly
dependent on their neighbors for
their survival," says Claire Fraser-
Liggett, director of the Institute
for Genome Sciences at the
University of Maryland.
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Metagenomics, however, is
immensely complicated.
Researchers know little about how
the millions of microbial genes
might work together, and it's
difficult to sort out which patterns
are signatures of disease versus
part of normal variation between
people. "There's no way to
overemphasize the analytical
challenges," Fraser-Liggett says.
"It's something that everybody is
struggling with."
Early results from Segre's study
indicate that researchers might not
have to decode the entire
microbiome to better treat
children's skin diseases. She says
she envisions a day in the not-too-
distant future when a
dermatologist, during an office
visit, will drop a skin sample into
a machine that spits out a
signature of the microbiome.
If she finds certain microbial
profiles that predict the onset of
an eczema flare, for example,
doctors could use that data as a
guide for action. They might tell
the patient to take a few extra
bleach baths that week, or to skip
football practice. Researchers
might even be able to create
"probiotic" concoctions to replace
the bacterial species that patients
lack during a flare, Segre says.
Hospitals are already routinely
swabbing people's noses to screen
for drug-resistant bacteria. "You
get that result in less than an
hour," Segre says. If the screen
turns up MRSA, for example,
doctors can prescribe an antibiotic
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NASA Scientist Claims to See Alien Life In Meteorites,

Controversy Ensues
Rebecca Boyle (Popular Boyle talks to David Morrison,
Science - New Technology, senior scientist at the NASA
Science News, The Future Astrobiology Institute at Ames
Now)
Research Center, who said
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:57:13 AM "Perhaps the publication came out
Alien Microbe Fossils? This tube, too soon; more appropriate would
found in a meteorite that fell to have been on April 1."
Earth in 1864, is similar in size For its part, the Journal of
and shape to the giant bacterium Cosmology has invited
Titanospirillum velox. A NASA commentary from 100 scientists,
astrobiologist claims it is the and is publishing them on its
remains of an alien microbe. His website. MSNBC's Boyle hits the
claim is controversial, to say the highlights so far, while noting that
least. R. Hoover/Journal of they're not in chronological order
Cosmology The jury is still out, - is the journal publishing only
but skepticism permeates the some of the commentaries?
scientific community The J of C is edited by Rudolf
Did a NASA scientist find Schild, a professor of cosmology
fossilized alien microbes at the Harvard-Smithsonian
embedded in a 146-year-old Center for Astrophysics who has
meteorite? As this claim emerged written almost 300 scientific
over the weekend, the answer papers. It has been drawing
from the scientific community so skepticism since at least last fall,
far appears to be something showing up on discussion boards
between "Um, what?" and "No." and in the science blogosphere.
Saturday afternoon, the Journal Critics say its website looks like a
of Cosmology, which has made a student's science project; Myers
name for itself by publishing said it looks like it was "sucked
p r o v o c a t i v e p a p e r s a b o u t out, this is not the first time are a long, long way from rabbit in a meteor. While they're through a wormhole from the
controversial topics, sent out a Hoover has made this claim, and knowing whether the claim is at it, they might as well throw in a 1990s." But the editorial board
mass press release announcing a similar arguments have been v a l i d o r n o t " ; a t N P R , bigfoot print on the surface and includes some impressive names.
new paper by the award-winning made before, including this paper astrophysicist Adam Frank said chupacabra coprolite from space. Many other scientist bloggers
astrobiologist Richard Hoover, by NASA astrobiologist David it's not proof, but "not disprovable All will be about as convincing as have asked why such a potentially
who studies extremophiles at McKay (which Nature's Great either." this story." groundbreaking paper would be
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Beyond blog notes is not cited by On the other hand, biologist and Rosie Redfield, who was one of published in an open-access
Center. He described filaments Hoover). blogger PZ Myers called it the first to critique NASA's online journal, instead of a
and other structures inside a rare As scientists began reacting to "garbage," wondering why it was controversial arsenic-eating- prestigious publication like
type of meteorite that look like the announcement, some have getting any attention at all: b a c t e r i a p a p e r , d e c l a r e d Science or Nature. And that's
s o m e u n k n o w n f o r m o f been more charitable than others. "I'm looking forward to the "Executive Summary: Move when it starts to get weird.
cyanobacteria. Bad Astronomer Phil Plait said he publication next year of the along folks, there's nothing to see
As several others have pointed was extremely skeptical, and "we discovery of an extraterrestrial here." And over at MSNBC, Alan NASA page 78
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Video: Squishy Larval Human From Japan Could
Be Your Next Cellphone
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:04:49 AM
Elfoid Cellphone Telepresence
Robot Is this guy excited, or
gasping in horror? via IEEE
Spectrum
Larvabot is baaack ... and now it's
in your pocket, giving a whole
new meaning to the vibrate setting
on your cell phone. The new
Elfoid telepresence telephone
tickles its owner when it gets a
call, wriggling to transmit your
head and face movements, along
with your voice, to the person on
the other end of the line.
The Elfoid, a pocket-sized
version of the Telenoid R1
Larvabot, is the latest bizarre
creation of roboticist Hiroshi
Ishiguro, who also brought us a
doppelganger version of himself
and a fembot version of a
NASA
continued from page 77
Schild sent another press release
addressing that question, saying it
was "tantamount to school-yard
taunts by jealous children." The
journal claims to be the victim of
a conspiracy by NASA, the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Nature
and other organizations. At
Japanese model. It was unveiled
Thursday at a Japanese press
conference.
Talk into its belly and use a
motion-capture system to transmit
your face and head movements to
the Elfoid, which will act them
out, conveying your presence in a
way that voices just can't. And
Wired, David Dobbs tries to make mainstream science community is
sense of it all.
Weirdness or not, Hoover's claim
is certainly an extraordinary one.
But as Carl Sagan once said,
extraordinary claims require
extraordinary evidence. It seems
unlikely that this evidence will fit
the bill, at least as far as the
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known to be effective against the
species.
These potential applications are
many years off, and Segre's initial
imaginations fill in the details. Its
studies probably won't have much
eyes and face are creepily
affect on Jake's eczema. Still, the
realistic, but the body is limited to
Harveys are happy to be moving
flipper-like arms and a mermaid-
the field forward. "It's probably
like tapered torso, making it look
going to be a while before Jake's
like a tadpole, Casper the Friendly
helped," Debbie says. "But in the
Ghost or a male reproductive cell,
future, if someone else can avoid
depending on your frame of mind.
sitting up all night scratching their
Check out the 360-degree view in
legs, that would be great."
the video below. Yes, it has a
derriere.
The Elfoid apparently can't move
its limbs or face as much as its
larger kin, according to IEEE, but
Ishiguro and colleagues plan to
use microactuators to give it more
movement.
probably shouldn't. It apparently
Please don't, guys.
has a "soft, pleasant-to-the-touch
[via Automaton, Advanced
exterior," according to IEEE's
Telecommunications Research
Automaton blog.
International]
Elfoid and Telenoid are meant to
be minimalist humanoids, with
just enough human-like features
to evoke a person's presence.
Users are supposed to let their
concerned.
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An Easy-to-Follow Energy Road Map
Nicolas Loris (The Foundry: Congress restricted more and
Conservative Policy News.) more offshore areas through
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:00:19 AM annual Department of the Interior
(DOI) appropriations, denying
Faced with increasing electricity funding to conduct lease sales.
prices (as well as brownouts in Nunes’s bill would improve
some areas) and higher prices at access to America’s resources in
the pump, Americans are calling the Outer Continental Shelf
for solutions that would result in (OCS) by removing unnecessary
affordable electricity and gas and restrictive delays in the
prices. The easiest way to do that implementation of the Draft
is to increase supply to offset Proposed OCS Oil and Gas
rising demand. The federal Leasing Program 2010–2015,
government’s role should be not which was put forth by the Bush
to pick winners and losers among Administration. The bill would
energy technologies but set the require the Secretary of the
rules in place to allow companies Interior to conduct a lease sale 30
to produce energy if it’s in their days after the bill’s enactment and
interest to do so. Rep. Devin every 270 days after that in each
Nunes (R–CA) released new OCS planning region where a
legislation that provides an commercial interest exists to
efficient path forward to increase purchase the lease.
energy supply, create jobs, and Some 86 billion barrels of oil and
grow America’s economy while 420 trillion cubic feet of natural
preventing the Environmental gas are beneath America’s waters,
Protection Agency (EPA) from a n d w h i l e t h o s e r e s o u r c e s
stifling economic growth with w o u l d n ’ t i m m e d i a t e l y b e
senseless regulations. available, we should move
Nunes’s legislation would open forward to access those resources.
access to domestic oil and gas Opening Alaska’s Arctic
exploration both onshore and N a t i o n a l W i l d l i f e R e f u g e
offshore, streamline the process to For the past few decades, the
permit new nuclear power plants, federal government has been a
and attempt to remove the special- hindrance rather than a help in
i n t e r e s t p o l i t i c k i n g b e h i n d expanding America’s domestic
renewable energy subsidies. The energy supply. Alaska’s Arctic
bill would also prohibit the EPA N a t i o n a l W i l d l i f e R e f u g e
from regulating greenhouse gas (ANWR) is likely the most
emissions under the Clean Air Act infamous case. ANWR is the
(CAA). largest single untapped source of
Offshore Access American oil. The U.S.
Many of America’s offshore Geological Survey estimates that
areas are off-limits to energy it contains 5.7–16 billion barrels
production. Beginning in 1982, o f r e c o v e r a b l e c r u d e o i l .
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DOE to manage the Yucca
repository and removing the fee
that ratepayers pay to the federal
government to used-fuel-
management services. Removing
the fee would allow a market-
based system to emerge for used-
fuel management.
The proposal also would reform
how new reactors are potentially
permitted. The current permitting
process to build new reactors is a
product of a streamlining effort
established by the Energy Policy
Act of 1992, but it is still proving
to be slow and unpredictable. The
Nunes legislation would create a
Assuming the middle of this expansions of large greenhouse- second permitting track that
range, ANWR could provide gas-emitting-plants this year. would allow for a permit to be
nearly a million barrels per day, Reining in the EPA’s regulatory issued in approximately two
every day it is in operation, for excesses with respect to carbon years.
several decades. dioxide and other greenhouse gas To be eligible, applicants must:
This drilling would occur on only emissions is long overdue and is a • Construct a reactor in which the
2,000 acres of ANWR’s 19 critically important title in the design has already been certified
million-acre expanse and only Nunes legislation. The American b y t h e N u c l e a r R e g u l a t o r y
during the time of year when the people made it clear last year that C o m m i s s i o n ( N R C ) ;
g r o u n d i s f r o z e n . W i l d l i f e they had no appetite for cap-and- • Build the new reactor on or
migration typically occurs during trade legislation that would inflict adjacent to a site where reactors
warmer periods, so drilling would serious economic damage while already operate;
not be disruptive to animals, most providing no environmental • Not be subject to any NRC
notably caribou. Only an act of b e n e f i t . T h e E P A ’ s C O 2 actions to revoke operating
Congress can open up ANWR to regulations would do no less. permits; and
leasing for oil and gas production. Moving Forward with Nuclear • Have submitted a completed
Stopping EPA’s Global Warming Energy combined construction and
Regulations Of critical importance, the Nunes o p e r a t i n g l i c e n s e p e r m i t
The EPA’s endangerment finding b i l l c r e a t e s a p a t h w a y t o application that has been docketed
gives the EPA justification to determine whether or not Yucca is by the NRC.
r e g u l a t e g r e e n h o u s e g a s suitable as a repository and puts
emissions, most notably carbon forth a plan to find an alternative The expedited process would
dioxide (CO2), under the CAA. site if one is necessary. It also entail the issuance of a draft
The EPA already began targeting directs the Department of Energy Environmental Impact Statement
motor vehicles last year and will (DOE) to report back to Congress (EIS) within 12 months of the
start regulating emissions from on the feasibility of establishing
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new power plants and major an organization outside of the
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Defense Lessons from Europe
Submitted at 3/7/2011 3:00:21 AM
Europeans have believed that
international institutions could
replace defense. We can learn
from their mistakes.
T he world has a way of working
against an American president’s
own predilections and priorities.
Today’s world -- an exploding
Middle East, pirate attacks off the
coast of Somalia, the Chinese
naval response to Libya, and daily
intransigence by Iran and North
Korea -- is hindering President
Obama’s strong desire to effect a
“fundamental transformation” of
the American economy and
culture. It is hitting him in his
weak spot, defense policy.
The extent to which “weak spots”
are understood by allied nations,
hostile powers, and terrorist actors
is a matter of endless and
inconclusive debate, but it is clear
that we face real danger and real
emerging threats throughout the
world that we cannot continue to
ignore.
#ad#At the same time, Americans,
like many Europeans, are
beginning to understand the need
to have budgets that do not crush
economic growth or require
unsustainable levels of debt. A
strong economy is the linchpin of
national happiness and strength,
and recent experience has exposed
the intellectual bankruptcy of a
governing philosophy premised
on centralized planning, unbridled
spending, and nanny-state
regulation.
So it appears, God willing, that
historic budget cuts may be
coming down the pike -- if not
now, then very soon. Tactically,
hawkish budget cutters seem most
credible when they propose across
-the-board cuts, including
defense, which helps to mute the
media’s demand for so-called
“shared sacrifice.” But the fact of
the matter is that defense is the
one thing that should not be part
of federal budget negotiations.
Our defense needs should be
determined first, and then the rest
of our budget must accommodate
this figure.
We are indeed in the middle of
the most significant battle over
the role of the federal government
vis-à-vis our individual states
since the New Deal, but it is clear
that providing for the common
defense is the most inherently
federal responsibility. As John Jay
remarked in The Federalist no. 4,
the federal government needs to
cultivate “ such a situation as,
instead of inviting war, will tend
to repress and discourage it. That
situation consists in the best
possible state of defense, and
necessarily depends on the
government, the arms, and the
resources of the country.” From
this vantage point, it is clear that
the best trains, schools, and social
services in the world mean
nothing if we cannot protect our
way of life.
We are learning a lot from
Europe these days, especially how
not to govern a modern
democratic nation. Unsustainable
social-welfare spending,
multiculturalism instead of
assimilation for immigrants, and
ever-decreasing defense budgets
all demonstrate that the path
Europe has been following is not
the model for a government by the
people. And most significantly,
we learn that Europe’s defense
budgets will continue to decrease
unless there is a dramatic
rearrangement of priorities among
its peoples. The NATO secretary
general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
recently warned that “the budget
decreases across the continent
could have dire consequences: If
the cuts are too deep, we won’t be
able to defend the security on
which our democratic societies
and prosperous economies
depend. We risk a Europe
increasingly adrift from the
United States.”
British defense secretary Liam
Fox recently complained about
the proposed 10 percent reduction
in the defense budget and warned
that such cuts were “draconian”
during a time when the U.K. is at
war. Decreased capacities will
force the U.K. to “increase
dependence on other states for
some collective security tasks (for
example, in anti-piracy
operations),” as Malcolm
Chalmers concluded in a defense
review done by the Royal United
Services Institute in June 2010.
Secretary of State Clinton has
made it clear that the Obama
administration is worried about
the proposed deep defense cuts,
citing the need “to have an
alliance where there is a
commitment to the common
defense . . . Each country has to
be able to make its appropriate
contributions.”
#page#Secretary Clinton also
said: “We face new and different
threats. Of course there are cuts
that we’re making, but then there
are new responsibilities, like
cyber security or missile defense,
that we’re going to have to
assume.” The diplomatically
phrased statement seems to
indicate that the United States is
warning our NATO partners to
stop decreasing their defense
budgets and increasing their
reliance on American
benevolence and hegemony.
What accounts for decades of
cuts in European defense budgets?
In 2002, Robert Kagan wrote in
Of Paradise and Power on the
difference in world views between
Europe and America. Europe was
“turning away from power” into a
“world of laws and rules and
transnational negotiation and
cooperation,” he wrote.
Meanwhile America was still
living in the Hobbesian world
where international laws are
unreliable and “true security and
the defense and promotion of a
liberal order still depend on the
possession and use of military
might.”
#ad# Today’s world tells us that
we were right and the Kantian
New World Order view embraced
by Europe was, at best, a well-
intentioned but wrong-headed
miscalculation regarding the
conduct of nations. China’s recent
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peacocking, North Korea’s
puffing, and Iran’s constant
provocation all highlight the very
real concept of tyranny among
nations and the importance of real
military force to prevent it. The
failure of the United Nations to
deal effectively with Iran’s
nuclear buildup (even though the
U.N.’s sole original purpose was
“To maintain international peace
and security,” which are the first
six words of the U.N. Charter), its
noticeable absence during the
uprisings in Egypt, its slow and
verbal response to the massacres
in Libya, and its farcical
announcement of an International
Criminal Court prosecution of
Qaddafi (which was dangerously,
from the perspective of U.S.
sovereignty, endorsed by
President Obama) all show us that
world peace will depend not on a
historical vision for cooperative
world order but on the ability of
nations like the United States to
deter threats through the
projection of military strength..
So Europe has taught us at least
three things in recent months. (1)
All bills eventually come due:
Elected officials cannot spend
unlimited sums on social-welfare
and entitlement programs and
expect to maintain a functioning
democracy, much less a vibrant
economy. (2) When the need to
cut spending becomes
inescapable, an enticing place to
start is the defense budget, as such
cuts are often less politically
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An Emergency for Americans Under 30

Submitted at 3/7/2011 3:00:20 AM
we don’t get our debt under be left holding the bag. through 2015. Or Congress could Debt Paying Generation will
control. And there's more than IOUs in just eliminate the entire experience a significant level of
For the Debt Paying Generation, # a d # O f t h e s e v e r a l s t u d i e s that bag. A much weaker discretionary budget, all of Social financial insecurity. For example,
huge burdens, high inflation, and released by the IMF, the most economy is part of the burden, Security, and spending equal to it is widely believed, with good
a weakened economy. important was a May 15 report too. According to Claudia two-thirds of our national-debt reason, that Americans under 30
A news alert for the Debt Paying warning the United States that it Reinhart and Hugh Rogoff, interest payments for FY 2011 to are never going to collect any
Generation: President Obama’s would have a debt-to-GDP ratio authors of the best-selling This reach the same total cuts this year, Social Security or Medicare,
budget for Fiscal Year 2012 of 100 percent by 2015. An April Time is Different: Eight Centuries and leave the budget in other despite government promises to
brings the national debt from 30 report also found that of all the of Financial Folly, countries that years untouched. the contrary. How unfair is it,
$14.1 trillion to nearly $26.4 debt reductions industrialized amass public debt above 90 It’s time for Americans to step up then, to add insult to injury by
trillion by 2021. This will take the nations need to make, the United percent of GDP inevitably and place blame squarely on loading them down with
amount of debt per working States requires the second-largest experience sharply slower ourselves both for electing thousands in additional taxes
American by the end of this fiscal adjustment. This adjustment economic growth and usually ineffective leaders and for not throughout their lives to repay the
year -- all 153,000,000 of them -- amounts to full 12 percent of our debilitating inflation. That means knowing where our tax dollars are policy-driven debts of their
from $101,150 to more than structural deficits -- not quite as that the Debt Paying Generation going. Approximately 41 percent parents’ and grandparents’
$161,631. Young Americans are bad as Japan at 13 percent, but could end up with lower incomes of the president’s original 2011 generations?
going to get hammered by this considerably worse than woeful and devalued investments while budget is taken up by Social We hope the new Congress will
debt if entitlement, welfare, and Greece at 9 percent. Yet Congress bearing the biggest debt burden in Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, address these problems before
defense reforms are not under will probably not be able to enact human history. Say hello to programs that this nation can’t they hit critical mass in the next
way within the next two to five these necessary changes. virtually no savings and no afford but that huge majorities of two to five years However,
years. In order to achieve that 12 retirement. Americans don’t want changed. history suggests otherwise, and
Those 115 million Americans percent reduction during the five Implementation of the IMF’s The program Americans most the inertia of the past bodes
between 5 and 30 years old are fiscal years between now and recommendations will be next to want to cut? Foreign aid, which poorly for the Debt Paying
going to have to absorb virtually 2015, the average budget cut impossible, for either political amounts to less than 2 percent of Generation. If Congress does not
all of this debt. In earlier pieces, would have to be equal to equal party, if the last ten years are any federal spending -- just $38 take seriously the fiscal realities
we outlined our take on the $395.3 billion per year. Given that example. With the president’s billion dollars out of a budget that the IMF has highlighted,
matter, and how few members of the president’s bipartisan debt 2012 budget proposal out but not nearly $4 trillion in size. young Americans almost certainly
Congress are willing to stand up commission’s recommendations yet fully analyzed, we decided to In order to lift ourselves out of will suffer under a lifelong
for the interests of the under-30 could not even get to Congress for put the IMF’s recommendations this hole, Americans will need to recession.
generation. Today, we’d like to a vote, and that the new budget into real terms based upon the make tough decisions. Because — William Beach is director of
highlight a warning from the from House Republicans cuts only president’s initial 2011 budget mandatory spending and defense the Center for Data Analysis at
International Monetary Fund $61 billion from 2010 spending proposal. If Congress were to make up more than 65 percent of the Heritage Foundation. Dustin
(IMF), which has been sending levels, how can the American enact the IMF recommendations, the federal budget, reforming Siggins is a former policy
warning shots across our bow for people expect real structural it would have to make cuts entitlement programs for the researcher in the Center for Data
almost a year, and just the last change in the federal budget? amounting to 72 percent of elderly and indigent, and bringing Analysis at Heritage. William
January released yet another Members of the Debt Paying defense spending or 145 percent much needed efficiencies to the Beach and Dustin Siggins
report warning of economic pain Generation certainly cannot, and of the president’s proposed Department of Defense, must be
and disruption for Americans if rightfully should ask if they will Medicaid spending every year undertaken now. Otherwise, the
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Is Dick Lugar Too Liberal?

Submitted at 3/7/2011 3:00:40 AM
of the Howard County GOP and a attention in 2009 when he filed a As Lugar’s approval ratings “He’s not an Arlen Specter. He
former campaigner for Lugar. lawsuit objecting to the terms of show, there’s no clear statewide firmly believes that he is a
Some Indiana tea partiers say he Dunn also doesn’t like how little the government-arranged Chrysler momentum yet to oust the senator, Republican and the majority of
is. time Lugar has spent visiting bankruptcy. The bankruptcy something Hoosiers for Republicans and the majority of
I f Indiana tea partiers have their Indiana towns in recent years. violated the norm of giving Conservative Senate is working to Hoosiers believe the way that he
way, Republican Dick Lugar is “I’ve not seen my senator in four priority to creditors who hold change. “The senator is beloved does,” Feigenbaum says.
entering the twilight of his Senate and a half years. He’s not been in secured debt (such as the Indiana around the state and around the Nevertheless, the GOP primary
years. our community at all.” pension funds, which lost $5.6 nation. We are right now focusing could easily unleash tensions in
“For the last couple of years, his So far, only two names have been million) over those with on educating Hoosiers about his the Indiana Republican party.
v o t i n g r e c o r d h a s g o t t e n widely bandied about as possible unsecured debt (such as the actual voting record, showing that Gov. Mitch Daniels has already
progressively more liberal and Lugar challengers: state treasurer United Auto Workers). Mourdock he is not as conservative as he said he will support Lugar,
more progressive. We’ve reached Richard Mourdock and state also argued that it had been says that he is,” says Boyer. although it is unclear how active
out to him. We’ve met with him. senator Mike Delph. Delph has unconstitutional for the #page#Feigenbaum questions Daniels plans to be in the race.
We’ve gone with all the motions made no formal announcement government to use TARP funds to whether the Tea Party push will Rep. Mike Pence, who is expected
and realized that there’s really no but appears to be weighing a run. bail out the auto companies. succeed in changing Hoosiers’ to run for governor and who has
changing his mind on those voting Mourdock formally announced Delph is best known for his view of Lugar. “Hoosiers tend to supported Lugar in past years, has
issues,” says Monica Boyer, co- his run in late February, and his efforts on immigration reform. be much more centrist in their said nothing yet.
l e a d e r o f H o o s i e r s f o r candidacy is backed by 74 percent “He’s been the point man on that views than a lot of people think, “I don’t think it’s going to tear the
Conservative Senate, a new group of Indiana GOP county chairmen. for the last three, maybe four and we don’t tend to be too Republican party apart in any
focused on uniting conservatives “It’s all about [the chairmen’s] years, and that’s certainly gotten interested in going for extremes in way, manner, shape, or form,”
around a primary challenger to dissatisfaction with the fact that him a lot of publicity,” says Ed either end,” argues Feigenbaum. Mourdock says about his run,
Lugar. Mr. Lugar hasn’t been around the Feigenbaum, an Indiana political Regardless of the primary’s adding that primaries are
#ad#Lugar’s active support for the state much,” Mourdock tells analyst. Right now, Delph is outcome, the state will be spared “healthy.”
DREAM Act, his backing of the National Review Online. “He pushing for a law similar to enduring a repeat of last year’s “Republicans always clamor
New START treaty, and his votes hasn’t been present, and certainly Arizona’s controversial SB 1070. Alaska Senate race, in which Lisa for#...#free markets#...#[and]
to confirm Sonia Sotomayor and his agenda is moving more and Either man would face an uphill Murkowski decided to run as a open competition in the
Elena Kagan have soured many m o r e t o w a r d s t h e O b a m a battle against Lugar, who has won write-in candidate after losing the marketplace,” he says. “If that’s
Indiana conservatives on the administration than traditional his seat by 35 percentage points or Republican primary to Joe Miller. good in the commercial
longtime senator, who was first Republican thinking.” more since 1988. In 2006, the In Indiana, a primary loser cannot marketplace, it’s equally good in
elected in 1976. Mourdock, who was reelected as year that Democrats swept e run in the general election, even the marketplace for Republican
“In Indiana, I don’t think we feel state treasurer in November, is congressional elections, no as an independent or write-in ideas.”
comfortable with Obama referring popular in Indiana; he won more Democrat even ran against Lugar. candidate. --- Katrina Trinko is an NRO staff
to Richard Lugar as his favorite v o t e s t h a n a n y o t h e r s t a t e In addition, Lugar has raised over #ad#Feigenbaum doesn’t think reporter. Katrina Trinko
Republican senator. That’s not a candidate in the past election. The $2.3 million and had, as of a there is a chance Lugar will
title that I want my senator to former businessman and county November poll he commissioned, decide to avoid the GOP primary
have,” says Craig Dunn, chairman commissioner gained national a 66 percent approval rating. by running as an independent.
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application being docketed and

Submitted at 3/7/2011 3:00:19 AM
for Public Broadcasting, which commentator Juan Williams for partisan lines. On one side are the the final EIS within 18 months.
purports to oversee both. Sen. Jim things he said on Fox News. Media Research Center, the Further, hearings over contested
Public broadcasters might see DeMint (R., N.C.) also introduced If a debate I recently had on an Committee for Accuracy in application issues would begin
their funding axed. a bill stripping the CPB of NPR affiliate is anything to go by, Middle East Reporting in once the draft EIS is issued rather
I t’s SOS time at National Public funding last week. PBS has done NPR will also argue that, no, the America, and Sen. Jim DeMint than after the final EIS. This
Radio -- “save our subsidies.” its lobbying bit by sending Arthur American people don’t think it is (R., S.C.); on the other are Soros, would allow the NRC and
Today, NPR will put CEO Vivian t o C o n g r e s s . N o w i t ’ s M s . biased. My debate was with Moveon.org, and Free Press. applicant to resolve contested
Schiller in front of a sympathetic S c h i l l e r ’ s t u r n . Patrick Butler, board member of #ad#If it had had visionary licensing issues within 24 months
National Press Club audience to Alas for Ms. Schiller, the the Public Media Association, the leadership, NPR could have of the application being docketed.
plead for Congress to spare its arguments against saving the CPB group hastily put together last prevented this fissure. It might The bill also calls for the Safety
funding. And if the announcement funding are too strong. That they month to conduct the lobbying have been able to spare the axe Evaluation Report—NRC’s
is anything to go by, Ms. Schiller take the public dime at all is, in effort. He left me convinced that for the anachronism of application technical review
will tug at the heart strings by fact, one of the fundamental NPR will pour all its energy into government journalism in the age report—to be completed within 18
i n s i s t i n g t h a t “ r u r a l a n d problems with NPR and PBS. persuading enough Republicans to of thousands of broadcasting and months of the application being
e c o n o m i c a l l y d i s t r e s s e d The very idea of government spare its funding one more time. Internet outlets. Instead it got docketed. While such timeframes
communities” will be hardest hit journalism falls apart over the It will not, however, do anything what it has now. would be tight, with close
by this “significant blow” against f o l l o w i n g C a t c h - 2 2 : A n y to bring a better balance to its NPR has a good business model coordination between the
public broadcasting. institution that uses taxpayer newsroom. It is, after all, a with its membership approach, applicant and the NRC, it should
#ad#But it might be too little, too money must be accountable to the newsroom that counts among its which Craiglist founder Craig allow for a significantly shortened
late, and way too manipulative political representatives of those reporters Dina Temple-Raston, Newmark has praised as being process.
this time. National Public Radio is taxpayers; a journalist, however, who covers national security and stronger footing for the long run The bill also begins to break
too anachronistic, too expensive, must never be accountable to a counterterrorism despite authoring than the commercial option. That down one of the primary obstacles
and, yes, way too liberal for the politician. On this contradiction a book on civil liberties with has been the positive side of Ms. that new reactor technologies
n e w C o n g r e s s t o s h o w i t alone, NPR should lose its Anthony Romero, the executive Schiller’s tenure. have in entering the marketplace:
sympathy. funding (though cultural and director of the ACLU; Peter The membership model has the a lack of regulatory support. The
NPR could have saved itself educational programming at PBS Overby, who follows campaign added advantage of being current NRC does an outstanding
years ago, perhaps, by arresting could in principle survive). financing despite hailing from the voluntary, not coercive, as taxes job of regulating large light-water
its slide into liberal orthodoxy NPR, of course, would counter ultra-left group Common Cause; are. This will mean, of course, reactors, 104 of which operate in
after the GOP first went after it. that the CPB solves this Catch-22 and Nina Totenberg, whose that NPR will come to the U.S. today, but it performs
But it was too blind (and too by providing a political “firewall” liberal political opinions are aired increasingly depend on the likes inadequately in developing
smug, maybe?) to concede that it for NPR’s journalists. All the for all to hear every week on TV of Soros. But hey, it’s his dime, regulations that would allow new
was growing increasingly and CPB has done, however, has been news shows. not ours. technologies into the marketplace.
stridently biased. No institution to insulate NPR from criticism #page#And who’s on the right? --- Michael Gonzalez (on Twitter: Without this regulation, new
that touches the public dime can that might have helped it while The day after Juan Williams was gundisalvus) is vice president for technologies are effectively
live long by being partisan. failing to correct its problems. fired, the Washington Post communications at the Heritage banned because customers are
So now it has dragged down What NPR needed was adult reported that NPR had just gotten Foundation. hesitant to buy reactors that the
PBS, too, which has done a supervision; instead it got Vivian rid of its “most visible right EDITOR'S NOTE: This article NRC will not regulate, and the
somewhat better job of keeping its Schiller, a former New York leaning voice.” Juan Williams? has been amended since its initial NRC does not want to put its
biases in check. It has culminated Times executive under whose “All Things Considered,” indeed. posting. Michael Gonzalez resources toward a reactor
i n t h e n e w H o u s e o f tutelage NPR veered further and In fact, the debate over NPR’s technology that has no customers.
Representatives’ voting last further left, took $1.8 million bias is over. As NPR itself The result is that new nuclear
month to cut out the entire $460 from the liberal millionaire reports, the battle over its funding technologies are at a severe
million budget for the Corporation G e o r g e S o r o s , a n d f i r e d now breaks completely along
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Moore Hypocrisy in Madison

Rich Trzupek (FrontPage do things differently. We even
Magazine » FrontPage) agree that there are some places
Submitted at 3/6/2011 10:07:47 PM where we need to talk about how
we negotiate. … However, we
Nothing says “leftist hypocrisy” refuse to accept in America that
quite so well as when the king of we don’t believe that a voice at
double standards – faux-umentary the table is an option. It is not an
film-maker Michael Moore – is option of a leader and it surely is
trotted out to rally the troops. The not the Wisconsin way.” Walker’s Next Smart
millionaire director’s “I’m One has to wonder if Taylor is Move: Expanding
standing up for the working class” listening to what she’s saying. School Choice in
act added yet another level of Unlike Senator Taylor, Governor
surreal to the bizarre atmosphere Walker is actually at his desk in Wisconsin
in Madison, Wisconsin, as union Madison, doing the job he was Anissa Borchardt (The Foundry:
supporters held another massive elected to do. It is Senator Taylor Conservative Policy News.)
rally this weekend. “We’re going and her thirteen colleagues who Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:00:41 AM
to do this together,” Moore told refuse to do their jobs. It is
the crowd on Saturday. “Don’t Senator Taylor and her thirteen Posted March 7th, 2011 at
give up. Please don’t give up.” colleagues who refuse to negotiate 12:00pm in Education Print This
According to an AP story, Moore in the democratic forum of a state Post
went on to describe Governor Teachers, one of the largest How long can the left keep this legislature, a sacred institution Governor Scott Walker (R–WI)
Scott Walker’s attempt to restore constituencies in the union rabble, up in the Dairy State? According that we hold so dear. Why do they is in the news for suggesting an
some sanity to Wisconsin’s can hardly be called working to reports, signs indicate that the refuse to negotiate and to instead overhaul of public-sector
budget in the hackneyed terms of class, at least not in the pity- “Wisconsin Fourteen” are starting hold the state of Wisconsin collective bargaining, but in the
class warfare: provoking sense that Moore to crack. The AWOL Democrat hostage? Because they know that midst of the controversy he has
Moore said the wealthy have intended: i.e. unskilled and semi- senators and Governor Walker they will lose any negotiation. also offered a great proposal to
overreached, first taking the skilled laborers. Nor is anyone spoke over the weekend in an Thus, Taylor and her colleagues expand school choice.
working class’ money and then trying to destroy organized labor attempt to reach some kind of a r e n ’ t a s k i n g W a l k e r a n d Walker’s biennial budget
taking their souls by shutting in America. Rather, the governor compromise. They failed to find W i s c o n s i n R e p u b l i c a n s t o proposes expanding school choice
them up at the bargaining table. of Wisconsin is simply trying to common ground, which led one of r e a s o n a b l y w o r k o u t a in Wisconsin, including charter
The crowd yelled “thank you” rein in out of control public sector the Democratic senators, Lena “compromise” deal; they’re rather schools and vouchers. Most
before Moore began to speak, and unions and create a relationship Taylor, to make a spectacularly demanding that the majority significantly, the budget lifts the
he responded: “All of America b e t w e e n t h e s t a t e a n d i t s ironic comment: submit to minority party cap on the Milwaukee Parental
thanks you, Wisconsin. employees that is equivalent to “I ask the governor, ‘Do your job. b l a c k m a i l . Choice Program, the nation’s
That sort of rhetoric played right that found in dozens of other Come to the table and speak to oldest voucher program. More
to the hearts of the protestors, but states and within the federal Wisconsin workers,”‘ Taylor said. than 20,000 low-income students
there was no substance in it. government itself. “We agree that fiscally we need to currently receive vouchers in
Milwaukee, and lifting the cap
would ensure that all low-income
students in the city have access to
safe and effective schools that
meets their needs. Walker stated:
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disadvantage.
To begin changing this, the
Nunes bill would direct the NRC
to develop a set of guidelines for
technology-neutral nuclear plant
designs. Instead of mandating that
a specific nuclear technology be
wedded to a specific plant design,
the new guidelines would allow
for other nuclear reactor
technologies to be used in a
nuclear power plant, creating a
significant step toward building a
more diverse and competitive
nuclear industry.
Finally, the proposal allows for
the provisional certification of
new reactor designs. While the
provision does not eliminate or
reduce any requirements for
reactor design approval, it would
allow for a reactor plant permit
applicant to move forward with
the permitting process. To get
provisional certification, the
legislation would direct the NRC
to consider such factors as
whether a design is commercially
viable in other markets or if it has
been certified in other countries.
Reverse Auction for Renewable
Energy Subsidies
The goal of Congress should be
to allow all energy sources to
compete subsidy-free in an open
market. Such an approach would
yield innovation and cost
reductions and maximize energy
supplies. The massive
infrastructure of subsidies, set-
asides, restrictions, preferences
and mandates that currently
plague America’s energy policy is
at the heart of most of America’s
energy policy problems. Part of
that is because special interests,
lobbyists, and parochial agendas
have largely determined how
energy subsidies and preferences
are distributed.
Nunes’s bill introduces a better
way to distribute energy subsidies
by creating a system where
renewable energy producers
would bid on subsidies. Those
with the lowest costs would get
the subsidy. While The Heritage
Foundation remains committed to
its position that all energy
subsidies should be abolished, we
do recognize that the Nunes idea
for distributing subsidies through
a reverse auction is a better
mechanism than is currently in
place. It could be improved even
further if, instead of using royalty
funds from new gas and oil
exploration, it took funding from
current subsidy payments.
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In addition, we will expand
choice and charter programs to
insure that every kid gets a great
education—no matter what zip
code they live in. We lift the cap
on the number of students eligible
to participate in the Milwaukee
parental choice program and
phase out the income eligibility
limits. And across the state, we
allow any University of
Wisconsin system four-year
campus to create a charter school.
Walker’s budget proposal also
works to restore fiscal restraint in
the state’s education spending.
From 2000 to 2007, state
spending on public education
increased more than 32 percent,
from$6.8 billion to more than $9
billion. Per-pupil expenditures in
Wisconsin public schools now
exceed the national average at
more than $10,700.
Many states are facing economic
turmoil and are faced with the
reality of making long-overdue
budget cuts to control spending
and keep their fiscal houses in
order. As Walker said to the state
legislature earlier this week with
his biennial budget proposal,
which seeks to pay down some of
the Badger State’s $4 billion
deficit:
We must work together to bring
our spending in line with reality.
We were elected—not to make
85
the easy decisions to benefit
ourselves—but to make the
difficult ones that will benefit our
children and grandchildren.
Walker is continuing Wisconsin’s
long tradition of providing school
choice options to parents. He is
transforming the education system
in a way that will better equip
students for a bright future. It’s
yet another bold move in what
have been a series of proposals to
put more power back in the hands
of teachers and families.
Wisconsin is showing that it can
rise to the challenge of meeting
students’ educational needs.
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member of the Young Leaders
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on interning at Heritage, please
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Obama Dithers on Libya No-Fly Zone

Stephen Brown (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 3/6/2011 10:06:35 PM
What started out in Libya a few
weeks ago as street protests by
people demanding jobs, an end to
political oppression and a fair
share of oil revenues is
developing into a bloody, full-
scale civil war.
The rebels and pro-Gaddafi
forces both experienced successes
and reverses over the weekend as
back-and-forth battles continued
to rage across the North African
country. Rebel forces recaptured
the oil town of Ras Ranuf but had
their advance halted when they
were ambushed and pushed out of
Bin Jawaad. Pro-Gaddafi troops
attacked several rebel-held points,
including the city of Zawiyah,
which they had failed to
capture last Friday. But like
Friday’s attack, the Zawiyah
offensive was also reported a
failure.
Besides the ground war, the
outside world focussed on the
Gaddafi government’s use of its
modern air force to bomb the
poorly armed rebel fighters who
lack air power. This one-sided
aspect of the conflict has
increased international concerns
about Libyans, both rebels and
civilians, being massacred from
the air. Even worse, Gaddafi’s air
force and superior weapons could
cause the war to become a
protracted one that could destroy
the Libyan state and eventually
President Obama has demanded
that Gaddafi step down and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
stating all options are on the table,
the White House is still
expressing caution.
“Lot’s of people throw around
phrases like a no-fly zone – they
talk about it as though it’s just a
video game,” said William Daley,
the new White House chief of
staff, on NBC’s “Meet The Press”
television show.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
also spoke carefully when he
addressed the risks of the no-fly
Jihad at the
zone option last week before a
House subcommittee, saying it
University of
would require “a big operation in
a big country. Gates said: “A no-
Central Florida
Robert Spencer (FrontPage
give a revenge-filled Gaddafi the fly zone begins with an attack on Magazine » FrontPage)
upper hand. All of which has Libya to destroy the air defenses.
increased the pressure on the That’s the way you do a no-fly Submitted at 3/6/2011 10:05:49 PM
White House to establish a no-fly zone.” Senator John Kerry,
zone over Libya. chairman of the Senate Foreign Last week the Muslim Student
Adding to this pressure, three Relations Committee, however, Association (MSA) of the
senators representing both parties, challenged Gates’ statement. University of Central Florida
John Kerry, Mitch McConnell and “That’s not the only way,” Kerry invited the Imam Siraj Wahhaj to
John McCain, have also called for said. “You could crater the give an address on campus –
the establishment of a no-flight runways.” funded by UCF’s Student
zone. But despite the fact JIHAD page 87

Samsung demos ambient light-powered transparent LCD

Michael Gorman (Engadget)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:14:00 PM
Wirelessly-powered TVs are
nice, and transparent displays are
cool and all, but what about an
ambient light-powered transparent
LCD? Well, that's nothing short of
awesome. Samsung showed off
just such a device at CeBIT 2011
last week -- a prototype 46-inch
display with 1920 x 1080
resolution and ten-finger
touchscreen capability. We aren't
sure what kind of black magic
Sammy put in this thing, but it's
an incredible feat of engineering
to make such a large display --
and its accompanying solar cells -
- efficient enough to run
exclusively off the juice it pulls
from surrounding light sources.
No word on how the photon-
powered LCD compares to
existing HD monitors in terms of
brightness, refresh rates, or color
reproduction, but a muted picture
is a small price to pay for cutting
the electrical cord forever.
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powered transparent LCD
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JIHAD DEFENSE
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Government Association. It was
an invitation that raised no
eyebrows: after all, Siraj Wahhaj
is one of the most sought-after
speakers on the Muslim circuit,
and has addressed audiences all
over the country. In 1991, he even
became the first Muslim to give
an invocation to the U.S.
Congress. After 9/11, his renown
as a moderate Muslim grew when
he declared: “I now feel
responsible to preach, actually to
go on a jihad against extremism.”
But with Siraj Wahhaj, as with so
many other Muslim leaders in the
U.S., things are not always as
moderate as they seem.
When Siraj Wahhaj spoke at
UCF, he was asked whether he
would condemn Hamas and Al-
Qaeda. Instead of answering
directly, Wahhaj launched into a
lengthy complaint against his
having been designated a
“potential unindicted co-
conspirator” in the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing. With
obvious annoyance in his voice,
Wahhaj complained that that
designation essentially meant
nothing; an audience member
drew sympathetic laughter when
she asserted that it meant that
Wahhaj was “innocent.” Wahhaj
did not explain to his UCF
audience that he earned the
designation by sponsoring talks in
the early 1990s by the Blind
Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, in
mosques in New York City and
New Jersey; Rahman was later
convicted for conspiring to blow
up the World Trade Center in
1993.
Apparently no one pressed
Wahhaj about whether he
condemned the jihad terror
groups. Apparently also no one in
the UCF audience asked Wahhaj
how his view of Islam differed
from that of Omar Abdel
Rahman; however, if anyone had
actually done so, probably
Wahhaj would have supplied yet
another windy non-answer,
generating a great deal of
righteous indignation from the
Muslims in the crowd but little to
nothing in the way of actual
information.
Siraj Wahhaj’s contacts with the
Blind Sheikh are not the only
blots on his reputation as a
“moderate.” He has warned that
the United States will fall unless it
“accepts the Islamic agenda.” He
has also asserted that “if only
Muslims were clever politically,
they could take over the United
States and replace its
constitutional government with a
caliphate.”
painful than cuts to entitlements.
(3) The Kantian view of a new
and more peaceful world order
reliant on international institutions
is demonstrably false.
Which leads to our final
conclusion and recommendation
for President Obama: Be bold.
Cut non-defense spending, reduce
our debt, and protect the defense
budget from across-the-board
cuts. Listen to your defense
secretary, Robert Gates, who has
transcended the partisan divide
since his appointment, when he
says: “Suggestions to cut defense
by this or that large number have
largely become exercises in
simple math, divorced from
serious considerations of
capabilities, risks, and the level of
resources needed to protect this
country's security and vital
interests around the world.”
Factions will complain, but being
a leader and statesman requires
you to rise above factional debate
and lead when it is required. As
Founding Father John Jay argued
and Ronald Reagan demonstrated,
the best way to deter military
conflict is to maintain the “best
possible state of defense.”
Strengthening America’s defenses
and its economic underpinning is
the most significant job you have,
so protect us, Mr. President.
— Ron D. DeSantis is a veteran
of Operation Iraqi Freedom and
an officer in the U.S. Navy
Reserve. Adam Paul Laxalt is a
veteran of Operation Iraqi
Freedom, a former lieutenant in
the U.S. Navy, and former special
assistant for arms control and
international security to then
Undersecretary of State John
Bolton.
Adam Paul Laxalt &
Ron D. DeSantis

Google Acquires BeatThatQuote for $61.5 Million

Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:30:18 AM
Google has broken new ground in
the personal finance realm with
the purchase of UK price
comparison website
BeatThatQuote for $61.5 million
(£37.7 million GBP).
BeatThatQuote, launched in
2005, provides price comparisons
for UK loans, insurance, legal
services, utilities and other
financial products. It was named
one of the UK’s fastest-growing
websites by Nielsen in 2007.
“Our team is excited about
becoming a part of Google,”
BeatThatQuote Managing
Director John Paleomylites said in
a statement on the company’s
website. “We look forward to
working with their engineers to
create new tools making it easier
for consumers to choose the right
financial products. We think we
can offer more transparency and
better pricing information than
existing online offerings.”
It’s likely that Google will use
interest in price comparison
technology as well, most recently
utilized in the company’s mobile
shopping apps.
By adding price comparison
results to search, Google can get a
piece of the transaction whenever
someone starts searching for a
home loan or a new car insurance
policy on its search engine. The
potential revenue from those
transactions could make this
BeatThatQuote as its foothold into acquisition quickly pay off.
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Are Federal Workers Overpaid?
Watch Heritage vs the Unions
Wednesday
Jason Richwine (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:00:22 PM
The Federal Times calls it a“steel
cage match” in which “two wonks
enter, one wonk leaves.”
Congressional hearings are never
that exciting, but Wednesday’s
House Oversight Committee
hearing on federal pay does
promise some spirited debate. At
issue is how the federal
government pays its civilian
workers—and, more importantly,
whether it pays them too much.
Leaders of the Office of Personnel
Management and National
Treasury Employees Union will
confront critics of federal pay for
the first time in public. Those
critics – “in the red corner” as the
Federal Times puts it – are
Heritage’s James Sherk and
Andrew Biggs of AEI.
Defenders of the federal pay
system will have a difficult task
during the hearing. They must
explain the following:
• (a) why federal workers earn
10 to 20 percent higher wages
than private workers with the
same skills
• (b) why private workers who
switch into the federal
government see a larger wage
increase than private workers who
find another private sector job
• (c) why federal workers earn
benefits more generous than even
workers in large private sector
firms
• (d) why much greater job
security in the federal sector is
never part of pay comparisons
• (e) why federal workers quit
their jobs at just one third the rate
of private sector workers
• (f) why most federal jobs have
waiting lists
With the weight of scholarly
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Jennifer Aniston Smart
Water Ad Lampoons
Viral Memes [VIDEO]
Todd Wasserman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 10:48:17 AM
call the would-be viral video “Jen
Smart Water sends up the whole Aniston’s Sex Tape.”
idea of viral videos, with nods to Smart Water’s not the first
memes such as Double Rainbow, marketer to realize the viral
animated dancing babies and lip- potential of stereotypical Internet
syncing kids, in a new ad memes. For instance, in the 2009
featuring that recurring subject of film Funny People, Jonah Hill’s
Internet interest: Jennifer Aniston. struggling comic character put out
The nearly 3-minute ad features a YouTube video of himself
Aniston, a longtime Smart Water playing with kittens to get
spokeswoman, being directed to attention. That video has gotten
include elements that will make more than 250,000 hits in real life.
the ad go viral. Aniston portrays What do you think? Can Smart
herself as a naif to such things. Water have it both ways? Or is
“I’m here to talk to you about this idea not so smart after all?
Tell us in the comments.
evidence bearing down on them, Smart Water,” says Aniston. “But
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Jewish Student Sues UC Berkeley over Muslim Assault

Maayana Miskin (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 9:13:59 AM
This article is reprinted from
IsraelNationalNews.com.
A Jewish student at the
University of California at
Berkeley who was attacked by a
Muslim student last year has filed
suit against UC Berkeley for
failing to provide a safe
atmosphere. In her suit, 21-year-
old Jessica Felber alleges that UC
Berkeley did not effectively deal
with harassment and intimidation
by Muslim and pro-Arab student
groups, leading to “a dangerous
and threatening environment.”
Felber was attacked by Husam
Zakharia, leader of the Students
for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
group, during a rally. At the time,
she was holding a sign that said
“Israel Wants Peace.”
Zakharia rammed Felber with a
shopping cart, causing her injury.
Following the assault, she was
granted a restraining order
against Zakharia.
The assault could have been
prevented if campus authorities
had taken sufficient care to ensure
students’ safety, according to the
suit. Instead, UC Berkeley
policies “fostered and
encouraged” pro-terrorist
incitement, “turned a blind eye to
the perpetrators of illegal
activities,” and “failed to
effectively discipline the MSA
[Muslim Student Association] and
SJP for their pro-terrorist
programs, goals and conduct;
despite having ample notice that
such violence was foreseeable.”
By failing to provide security to
Jewish and pro-Israel students,
UC Berkeley “condoned and
allowed the MSA, the SJP and
MSU [Muslim Student Union] to
threaten, harass and intimidate
Jewish students and to endanger
their health and safety.”

Book Will Write the History of Egypt’s Revolution in Tweets

Sarah Kessler (Mashable!) snippets. alarm, and timeline of the
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:45:58 AM “Raw emotion bursts from their demonstrations is an another
messages, whether frantic alarm matter. An excerpt of the book is
Twitter’s role in the resignation at attacks from pro-government posted below; let us know what
of Egyptian President Hosni thugs or delirious happiness at the you think the comments.
Mubarak is disputed. But nobody fall of the dictator,” reads a Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
disputes that the micro-blogging description of the book. “To read mattjeacock
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8 Essential Developer Apps for Multiple Platforms
Kelli Shaver (Mashable!)
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:21:43 AM
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For any web developer, making
sure your workflow stays
streamlined and efficient is
essential. Even small projects can
grow quickly in size and go
through several iterations and
stages of development. You want
to have an editor that’s flexible
but unobtrusive, source control
that works, with lots of options,
and tools to keep it all organized,
just a few keystrokes away.
Last week, we took a look at
some great Windows, Mac and
Linux productivity applications
that you may not have heard of.
Now we’ll take a closer look at
eight more applications for web
developers. These tools have a
variety of uses, but they all share
one quality — they allow you to
spend more time writing good
code and less time dealing with
project overhead.
Since we love efficiency so
much, let’s dive right in. 1.
Sublime Text
If you’ve been in the industry for
any length of time, chances are
you’ve heard of Sublime Text.
Sublime is a powerful and flexible
code with a robust feature set and
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a powerful Python language- strip out duplicate rules, remove 7. MySQL Workbench
based plug-in system, so you can whitespace and comments, correct The name alone makes this free
further add functionality to the misplaced semicolons, and application for Windows, Linux
application. The $59 price tag convert rules to shorthand syntax, and Mac sound like more of a
may seem a bit steep (Sublime is and more. A quick run through powerhouse work horse than just
free to try for as long as you like), CSSTidy before going live makes another pretty GUI, and that’s
but this program delivers. sure your CSS files are neat and pretty much exactly what MySQL
With Sublime Text 2 Alpha fast-loading. 5. Toucan Workbench is — a no-nonsense
currently available in Windows, Another great, free Windows GUI front-end for the MySQL
Linux and Mac OS, Sublime application from the folks over at database.
offers up tools such as Goto PortableApps, Toucan is backup, Complete with administration
Anything‚ a fuzzy-find utility that synchronization and encryption tools and powerful query building
lets you quickly search and utility that will help you keep and table management utilities,
The basics of Git are easy to
navigate to any project file, multi- your private data secure and safe. Workbench (which comes straight
learn, but its more advanced
select capabilities for fast multi- Make, restore, synchronize and from the MySQL developers),
features can get confusing fast,
column editing, project encrypt all of your code and offers a robust desktop application
especially when not everyone on
management and instant project sensitive information (like all of for interfacing with, building,
your team is a die-hard code
switching. It also offers many those passwords) quickly and testing, optimizing and
monkey. Enter SmartGit.
other features you’d expect a easily using Toucan’s simple maintaining your MySQL
SmartGit provides a streamlined,
great editor to have — line syntax GUI. Toucan offers more database. 8. Snippets
powerful graphical interface for
highlighting, regexp find and advanced features, as well, If you’re like most developers,
Git. Available for Windows,
replace, and code snippets including rules that let you chances are you collect code —
Linux and Mac, SmartGit (written
libraries. 2. Kate specify guidelines for file those little bits of brilliance that
in Java) makes browsing, cloning
Looking for something a little management, a command line crop up here and there, only to
and committing to repositories
different? Kate is the default text interface and a powerful scripting prove invaluable a couple of
easy, thanks to a familiar file
editor for the KDE shell, but it’s system using the Lua weeks down the road. At $39, the
browser interface and a graphical
also available for Windows and programming language. 6. Snippets app for the Mac OS
histories that easily diagram
Mac (and works just fine in other Transmit gives you some place to store all
commits, branches and tags.
Linux window managers). Sure, an FTP program may not of those stray lines of delicious
SmartGit is free for non-
Free and open-source, Kate has a sound very glamorous, but the source code.
commercial use, and commercial
wide array of great features for $34 Transmit application for the Snippets sits quietly in your
licenses start at $69, with bulk
code editing. Some of Kate’s Mac OS is the cream of the crop. menu bar and waits for you to
discounts available. 4. CSSTidy
features include regexp find and Transmit boasts a slick, intuitive come along and drop code into it.
Anyone who’s ever worked with
replace, syntax highlighting and interface with support for a When you enter a new snippet,
CSS knows how quickly a
code folding, support for multiple number of protocols, including you’ll also have the ability to add
stylesheet can get out of hand.
encoding types, block selection FTP, SSH and even Amazon S3. labels (tags) for faster search and
Keeping your CSS neat and well-
and auto-indentation. Kate also Other features include default indexing. You’ll also be able to
organized isn’t always easy, and
has customizable keyboard permissions and auto-continue on give each snippet a description.
utilities like Sass aren’t always an
shortcuts and a scripting language error and a flexible UI that Clean, small and unobtrusive,
option. For situations like this,
to extend the editor via plug-ins. supports single or multi-panel Snippets stays out of the way until
CSSTidy comes to the rescue.
3. SmartGit layouts (with quick look and you need it and lets you quickly
This free, open-source
Git has rapidly become one of the coverflow), which make add, browse and search for just
application for Windows
most used and most popular Transmit’s remote file
processes, cleans and compresses ESSENTIAL page 91
version control systems around. management seamless and simple.
your stylesheets. CSSTidy can
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the right bit of code when you
need it. Conclusion
As a web developer, getting and
staying organized is key. Good
software helps you get work done
faster and more efficiently, letting
you focus on writing great code.
We’ve gone over eight
applications that go a long way in
helping to achieve these goals —
tools that let you edit, organize,
back up and manage code across
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Enzyme found to make
fading memories fresher,
old wounds painful again
Darren Murph (Engadget) lowering the levels of PKMzeta
Submitted at 3/7/2011 11:53:00 AM caused rats to lose track of

Colossians 1:16 (03-07-11) memories more quickly, but the

There's something of a saying zany part is that boosting levels
that you can only remember the on a specific day helped animals
(Verse of the Day) that is created is his. All angels, lives are in his hands and our
things you try to forget, but if recall memories from days prior --
Submitted at 3/7/2011 2:00:00 AM demons, and spirits are below him hearts are yielded to his will, then
you'd prefer to hang on to those days where they weren't having
and their purpose is to honor and no one and nothing can prevent
For by him [Jesus] all things serve him. Even though demons photographic moments from PKMzeta jacked into their system.
his ultimate victory for us and in
were created: things in heaven have chosen not to honor and Thunder Mountain back in 1991, Heaven help our legal system
us. My Prayer... Holy and
and on earth, visible and invisible, serve him, that decision does not a gaggle of gurus from the should this ever get FDA approval
Almighty God, thank you for
whether thrones or powers or change what their purpose should Weizmann Institute of Science for use in humans.
revealing yourself in Jesus. Thank
rulers or authorities; all things be or the fact that Jesus showed just might have the magic elixir Enzyme found to make fading
you for triumphing over all
were created by him and for him. his superiority over them in his y o u ' v e b e e n y e a r n i n g f o r . memories fresher, old wounds
powers and created beings. Thank
— C o l o s s i a n s 1 : 1 6 ( N I V ) crucifixion and resurrection. The According to a newly published painful again originally appeared
you for giving me the confidence
T h o u g h t s o n T o d a y ' s universe, with its vast expanse study on long-term memory on Engadget on Mon, 07 Mar
that since I belong to you, no
Verse..."Jesus is Lord!" That and glory, was made by him and revitalization, Reut Shema and 2011 11:53:00 EDT. Please see
outside force or any power of
doesn't just mean that we have made to declare his glory. As colleagues found that boosting the our terms for use of feeds.
creation can have what belongs to
yielded our lives to his will and God's image to us, God's presence a m o u n t o f P K M z e t a c o u l d Permalink io9| Science| Email
you. In the name of the Creator
trusted in his grace. "Jesus is for us to know and see, he is our p o t e n t i a l l y h e l p o n e r e c a l l this| Comments
and King of all I pray. Amen.
Lord!" This means that everything King, Lord, and Savior. If our memories that were on the brink
of being forgotten. In testing,
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Pay-as-you-go shocker! CDMA

iPhone 4 makes its way to Cricket
Wireless (via jailbreak)
Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget) attests. See for yourself after the
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:37:00 PM break.
[Thanks, Mark]
As any astute follower of the Continue reading Pay-as-you-go
"pay-as-you-go" world knows, shocker! CDMA iPhone 4 makes
there are quite a few back alley its way to Cricket Wireless (via
Cricket dealers (and quite a few jailbreak)
main street ones as well) that will Pay-as-you-go shocker! CDMA
Skype to start serving ads happily flash any phone you give
them for use on their network --
iPhone 4 makes its way to Cricket
Wireless (via jailbreak) originally
in US, Germany and UK and not even Verizon's CDMA
iPhone is immune. Ready to jump
ship from "America's largest?" Of dude at the Cricket store with
appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07
Mar 2011 12:37:00 EDT. Please
see our terms for use of feeds.
ahead of upcoming IPO course, you'll have to jailbreak,
install some third party MMS
your precious smartphone. We're
not saying it's wise, but it is
possible, as the video below
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Vlad Savov (Engadget) the UK, and USA. Anonymous software, and trust some random
Submitted at 3/7/2011 12:59:00 PM data may be collected as part of
the new scheme to target ads to
It's a common problem, not specific audiences (you can,
having as much cash as you want however, opt out), while Skype
to, and Skype's solving it with a promises that user experience
c o m m o n w e b s o l u t i o n : remains paramount to its future
advertising. It may come as a goals, though clearly that looming
surprise to hear that the eminently Initial Public Offering isn't too far
popular voice and chat service from its thoughts right now either.
doesn't peddle stuff to its users Skype to start serving ads in US,
already, but it's now formalizing a Germany and UK ahead of
plan to introduce a carefully u p c o m i n g I P O o r i g i n a l l y
controlled measure of paid-for appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07
display ads on the Home tab of its Mar 2011 12:59:00 EDT. Please
Windows desktop client. You see our terms for use of feeds.
heard that right, there's no Permalink Download Squad, AFP
m e n t i o n o f M a c o r m o b i l e (Yahoo! News)| Skype| Email
services here, and it's further this| Comments
limited to the nations of Germany,